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词组 tongue-in-cheek
释义
Idiom
tongue-in-cheek
Theme: FUNNY
insincere; joking.
Ann made a tongue-in-cheek remark to John, and he got mad because he thought she was serious.The play seemed very serious at first, but then everyone saw that it was tongue-in-cheek, and they began laughing.
Idiom
tongue-in-cheek
tongue in cheek - if you say something tongue in cheek, what you have said is a joke, although it might seem to be serious.
She writes a very engaging and at times tongue-in-cheek account of her first meeting with the royal family.

tongue-in-cheek

Jocular or humorous, though seeming or appearing to be serious. The president's tongue-in-cheek speech about the "War on Couch Potatoes" has been extremely popular on the Internet this week.

tongue-in-cheek

Fig. insincere; joking. Ann made a tongue-in-cheek remark to John, and he got mad because he thought she was serious. The play seemed very serious at first, but then everyone saw that it was tongue-in-cheek, and they began laughing.
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