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no joke
Idioms and Phrases
Also, no laughing matter . A serious issue, as in Missing the last flight out was no joke , or This outbreak of flu is no laughing matter . The first term dates from about 1800, and the variant from the second half of the 1500s.Example Sentences
May 31 Ricky Gervais at the Hollywood Bowl Sure, death is no joke — but that doesn’t mean it can’t be funny.
Hear me on this: Stephen A. Smith is no joke.
"He wants to turn Canada into the 51st state, and it's no joke," she said.
But laughing at the Fuhrer is perhaps the cardinal sin when living under fascism—this is no joke.
I think back to those days and then when I got the assistant job in 2015 with John, I was here for seven seasons and every day on campus — and this is no joke — I pinched myself, like I can’t believe I’m here.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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