Idiom
does the Pope shit in the woods
Vulgar
Meaning
Obviously! Rhetorical question in response to a question where the answer is an emphatic yes.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Do you want to win? Does the Pope shit in the woods?”
“When my friend asked if I wanted to go to the concert, I replied, 'Does the Pope shit in the woods?'”
“He asked if I was interested in the promotion, and I answered with a sarcastic, 'Does the Pope shit in the woods?'”
Examples
simple
“Do you want to win? Does the Pope shit in the woods?”
contextual
“When my friend asked if I wanted to go to the concert, I replied, 'Does the Pope shit in the woods?'”
complex
“He asked if I was interested in the promotion, and I answered with a sarcastic, 'Does the Pope shit in the woods?'”
Origin
A combination of the two rhetorical questions is the Pope Catholic? and does a bear shit in the woods?. Compare is a bear Catholic?.
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