In my native language we have lots of ways (some of them very funny) of saying that you, or someone else didn't understand a joke right away. That is, he/she needed some time to figure it out.
I wonder if there's any idiomatic way of expressing that in English.
Answer
The word get is particularly used these days in the context of understanding jokes - and even more particularly in the negative, for not understanding. With no other context...
"I don't get it", "He doesn't get it!", "Don't you get it?", etc.
...are very likely to be assumed to be in reference to a joke that wasn't understood.
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