joking

Idioms and Phrases

see all joking aside .

Example Sentences

As Thursday's outage unfolded, Bluesky staff tried to make light of the situation, with one developer joking: “Btw — Today will get interesting! If the site goes down, maybe grab a soda, pet the kitty. We’ll hit it with a wrench as fast as we can.”

From BBC

Actually, indulge me one last time as I note Scott’s response to that question in a recent interview: “Dude, if you can build a Colosseum, you can flood it with f— water. Are you joking? And to get a couple of sharks in a net from the sea, are you kidding? Of course they can.”

From Los Angeles Times

Maher ripped into the new voters within Trump’s coalition, joking that the bunch curious to see what Trump would do were the “get the cat high” vote.

From Salon

He remained a loyal defender of his boss, joking that there would be "a smooth transition to a second Trump administration" amid Trump's false claims of election fraud in late 2020.

From BBC

And her opponent's former aide wouldn't be joking about overturning the 19th Amendment.

From Salon