joking

  • 41you must be joking — you re ˈjoking | you must be ˈjoking idiom (informal) used to show that you are very surprised at what sb has just said • No way am I doing that. You must be joking! • She s going out with Dan? You re joking! …

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  • 42you must be joking — you re joking or you must be joking spoken used for saying that you cannot believe that someone really means what they have just said because it seems so surprising or so silly She s thirty five, and she s going out with a nineteen year old. You… …

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  • 43you're joking — or you must be joking spoken used for saying that you cannot believe that someone really means what they have just said because it seems so surprising or so silly She s thirty five, and she s going out with a nineteen year old. You re joking! …

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  • 44be joking — phrase to say something that is not true in order to see if someone will believe you, so that you can laugh about it I thought he was joking when he said he’d resigned. No, really, I’m not joking! Thesaurus: to tell a joke or jokessynonym… …

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  • 45be joking — to say something that is not true in order to see if someone will believe you, so that you can laugh about it I thought he was joking when he said he d resigned. No, really, I m not joking! …

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  • 46(all) joking aside — (all) joking aside/apart/spoken phrase used before you say something serious after you have been saying something that was intended to be funny Joking aside, she’s a great actor. Thesaurus: expressions used when telling jokeshyponym quali …

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  • 47(all) joking apart — (all) joking aside/apart/spoken phrase used before you say something serious after you have been saying something that was intended to be funny Joking aside, she’s a great actor. Thesaurus: expressions used when telling jokeshyponym quali …

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  • 48only joking — only/just/joking spoken phrase used for saying that what you have just said is not really true I’ve lost your car keys. Only joking, they’re in my pocket. Thesaurus: expressions used when telling jokeshyponym quality of being funny an …

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  • 49just joking — only/just/joking spoken phrase used for saying that what you have just said is not really true I’ve lost your car keys. Only joking, they’re in my pocket. Thesaurus: expressions used when telling jokeshyponym quality of being funny an …

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  • 50jesting jocose jocular jocund joking — humourous humourous adj. same as {humorous}; causing amusement or laughter. [Narrower terms: {bantering, facetious, tongue in cheek, witty ; {boisterous, knockabout, slapstick ; {buffoonish, clownish, zany}; {comic, comical, funny, laughable,… …

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