joking
11joking aside — (or Brit joking apart) used to introduce a serious statement that follows a humorous statement It looks like this is a job for Superman! But joking aside, this is a serious problem and we re going to need help. • • • Main Entry: ↑joke * * *… …
12joking apart — ● joke * * * ˌjoking aˈpart/aˈside idiom (BrE) used to show that you are now being serious after you have said sth funny Main entry: ↑jokeidiom …
13Joking Apart (play) — Joking Apart is a 1978 play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn …
14joking relationship — joking relationships …
15Joking Apart — Infobox Television show name = Joking Apart caption = The opening title is superimposed over a stack of legal documents. format = Sitcom picture format = 4:3 runtime = 30 minutes creator = Steven Moffat director = Bob Spiers starring = Robert… …
16joking relationship — ▪ sociology relationship between two individuals or groups that allows or requires unusually free verbal or physical interaction. The relationship may be mutual (symmetrical) or formalized in such a way that one person or group does the… …
17Joking relationship — A joking relationship is a term applied by anthropologists to the institutionalised form of interaction between certain pairs of people in some societies. Analysed by British social anthropologist Alfred Radcliffe Brown in 1940 [… …
18joking relationships — Clearly defined relationships of reciprocal, ritual, mildly abusive behaviour, between persons who are not only permitted but expected to behave in ways that would be offensive or insulting to persons not so related. These relationships express a …
19joking aside — or[joking apart] {v. phr.}, {informal} No fooling; without exaggerating: seriously. * /Joking aside, although the conditions were not very comfortable, we had a wonderful time./ * /Joking apart, there must have been over a hundred people in the… …
20joking aside — or[joking apart] {v. phr.}, {informal} No fooling; without exaggerating: seriously. * /Joking aside, although the conditions were not very comfortable, we had a wonderful time./ * /Joking apart, there must have been over a hundred people in the… …
