"As you say. Silence beats a chamber pot in Amber."
"How's that?"
"'Tis gilt, m'lord, like a royal flush."
I see that there is some calambur but I cannot get it. I'm only learning English.
Thank you in advance!
Dear Roger Zelazny's fans! Can you explain me the joke in the "Sign of the Unicorn"?
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It’s toilet humor.
The joke is based on the phrase “silence is golden” (gilt meaning gilded or made to be golden).
A chamber pot is an old-fashioned form of a toilet.
And because it’s “in Amber” (a palace) the joke teller is teasing that the royal chamber pot would be golden.
He’s using the word “flush” to mean toilet.
So all together we have “[silence] ‘tis gilt (golden) m'lord, like a royal flush (royal chamber pot).”