Why are skeletons so calm?
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They’ve got a lot of ‘back-bone’ and can handle anything!
Because nothing gets under their skin!
The joke “Why are skeletons so calm? Because nothing gets under their skin!” is a play on words that cleverly combines a common idiom with a literal interpretation. The phrase “get under someone’s skin” is an idiom that means to annoy or irritate someone. In the context of the joke, this figurative expression is juxtaposed with the literal fact that skeletons, by definition, do not have skin. Therefore, nothing can physically get “under their skin.” The humor arises from the merging of these two interpretations: the idiomatic meaning of irritation and the anatomical reality of a skeleton.