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standing joke
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Idioms and Phrases
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.Discover More
Example Sentences
There was in fact an "eternal fitness" in horse and man that was not exactly a "standing joke," but a peripatetic one.
Then they raised a horse laugh, and the cost of that hatchet became a standing joke and a slur on my "business ability."
Grandmother Sanford's pension had come to be a standing joke.
His complete ignorance of nautical matters became a standing joke.
The prowess of the British charioteers became a standing joke in Rome against the soldiers of Cæsar.
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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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