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joke Idiom

butt of the joke

(See the butt of the joke)

crack a joke

tell a joke, say a funny word or phrase Please be serious. Don't crack jokes or laugh at us.

inside joke

a joke that is understood by only those who work or play together, inside joke """Would you like to buy some of our liveware?"" I asked. She frowned. ""Never mind,"" I said. ""It's an inside joke. Ha ha."""

joke around

play and tell jokes, fool around They were joking around after class - rapping and laughing.

joke is on you

(See the joke is on you)

joker

a person who tells jokes and likes to laugh Jerry is some joker! He makes everybody laugh.

play a joke on

fool or trick someone, play a prank on I played a joke on Ty. I phoned and said he'd won the lottery.

take a joke

not be mad if the joke is about you, a good sport Let's tell the story about Steve getting lost. He can take a joke.

the butt of the joke

the person who is laughed at, the goat Frank is so sensitive. He hates to be the butt of a joke.

the joke is on you

you are the one we are laughing at, play a joke You got the book with blank pages. The joke's on you!

play jokes on

make sb．the victim of a trick or joke；make fun of和…开玩笑
Mark Twain liked very much to tell funny stories and he also liked to play jokes on his friends．马克·吐温很喜欢讲有趣的故事，他也喜欢开朋友的玩笑。
Though he knew they were playing tricks on him， he pretended not to notice it．他心里明白他们是在捉弄他，但他佯装不知。

play jokes/tricks on

no joke

Idiom(s): no joke

Theme: SERIOUSNESS

a serious matter. (Informal.)
• It's no joke when you miss the last train.
• It's certainly no joke when you have to walk home.

able to take a joke

Idiom(s): able to take a joke

Theme: FLEXIBILITY

to be able to accept ridicule good-naturedly; to be the object or butt of a joke willingly. (Able to can be replaced with can.)
• Let's play a trick on Bill and see if he's able to take a joke.
• Better not tease Ann. She can't take a joke.

Broke as a joke and it ain't funny

This idiom in my opinion describes how it's not funny to be without a cent and just uses broke and joke as rhyming words that help explain this idiom a lot better.

Butt of a joke

If something or someone becomes the butt of a joke it or they are not taken seriously anymore.

Practical joke

A practical joke is a trick played on someone that is meant to be funny for people watching, though normally embarrassing for the person being tricked.

crack a joke|crack|joke

v. phr., informal To make a joke; tell a joke. The men sat around the stove, smoking and cracking jokes.

joking aside|joke|joking|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 room.

take a joke|joke|take

v. phr. Accept in good spirit some derision directed at oneself. My brother has a good sense of humor when teasing others, but he cannot take a joke on himself.

dirty joke

dirty joke
A smutty story, as in Teenagers love to tell dirty jokes. The use of dirty in the sense of “obscene” or “indecent” dates from the late 1500s, but its application to a joke began only in the 20th century. The same sense also appears in such expressions as dirty book, for a pornographic book; dirty old man, for a middle-aged or elderly lecher; and dirty word or talk dirty, for a lewd, offensive expression or sexually explicit conversation.

joke

joke
see crack a joke; dirty joke; no joke; sick joke; standing joke; take a joke.

sick joke

sick joke
An anecdote intended to be humorous but actually in very bad taste, as in His stories turn out to be sick jokes about people who are handicapped in some way. [Colloquial; mid-1900s]

standing joke

standing joke
Something that is always funny even though it is often repeated. For example, Mary's “Dennis who?” when her husband is mentioned is a standing joke around here. This idiom employs standing in the sense of “established” or “regular,” a usage dating from the mid-1500s.