Make A Joke (out) Of Something - Longman Dictionary

English English English - Japanese English - Korean English - Spanish Japanese - English Spanish - English English English - Japanese English - Korean English - Spanish Japanese - English Spanish - English English 日本語 Español latino 한국어 make a joke (out) of something From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmake a joke (out) of somethingmake a joke (out) of somethingJOKEto treat something serious as if it was intended to be funny  He could not bring himself to apologise. Instead, he tried to make a joke of it. → jokeExamples from the Corpusmake a joke (out) of something• My mother always makes a joke of everything.• I'd made a joke of it.• He makes a joke of the injury because, at 59, it is an inconvenience rather than a disaster.• You had your own reasons for making the call, and why not make a joke out of it?• That readiness to make a joke of life had been temporarily eclipsed.• We made a joke of it, the way Charles always came loaded with books on some new subject. Quizzes Quizzes

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