punch line

How happy it has been to discover my youthful ignorance as the true punch line.

The vice presidency has often served as the punch line in a long-running joke — that is, when the office and its occupant have gotten any attention at all.

And Vance has turned in a mixed performance on the campaign trail, struggling to turn anti-woke culture war material into punch lines.

Santos, who won a Long Island congressional seat in a 2022 midterms upset, became an unlikely national punch line when it turned out he concocted most of his life story.

Within minutes, she’d blabbed to everyone, making it sound like a big joke—with Jess and the twins as the punch line.