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.
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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...
...are very likely to be assumed to be in reference to a joke that wasn't understood.