cutting the cheese
Passing gas discreetly
Cutting the cheese is a euphemism for passing gas audibly.
The phrase plays on the sharp smell of certain cheeses: Who cut the cheese?
The expression is juvenile humor, common among children and in casual settings where directness about flatulence would be unwelcome.
- potty humorComedy about excrement
- crude jokesHumor emphasizing the indelicate
- flatulenceIntestinal gas accumulation
- breaking windExpelling rectal gas
- stenchPowerfully offensive odor
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