standing joke 的定义
- 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.
standing joke 近义词
等同于 byword
更多standing joke例句
- Policemen on the show joke about prison riots, bomb threats, and the shooting of unarmed civilians.
- Hmm, who are these people standing in front of the machines at the gym, neither occupying them nor not occupying them?
- A running joke inside the tribe is that the group is like that club with a hundred people waiting outside to get in.
- However, legal issues are only one of the things standing between an ex-prisoner and a job.
- And that was well before this Christmas, when he appeared to joke about Obama being a Muslim.
- It is thinner than that of chronic bronchitis, and upon standing separates into three layers of pus, mucus, and frothy serum.
- She looked so sweet when she said it, standing and smiling there in the middle of the floor, the door-way making a frame for her.
- It separates into three layers upon standing—a brown deposit, a clear fluid, and a frothy layer.
- He returned shortly, to meet his mother standing in the doorway, with pale, affrighted face.
- Ollie saw someone standing before it, bending slightly forward in the pose of expectation.