tongue-in-cheek

嘲讽嘲弄嘲讽的舌战群儒

tongue-in-cheek 的定义

  1. Ironically: “The critic's remarks of praise were uttered strictly tongue-in-cheek.”

tongue-in-cheek 近义词

adj. 形容词 adjective

ironic and insincere

更多tongue-in-cheek例句

  1. This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.
  2. Her travel clique has been known to arrive at an airport, bags packed, passport-in-hand, within hours of spotting a deal.
  3. After the release of the trailer for the special last week, TLC received a requisite and perhaps well-deserved tongue-lashing.
  4. Earl Spencer adds, “Effectively, my great-grandfather sold his children to his father-in-law.”
  5. The lack of a gun is not likely to be a major problem for close-in air-to-air dogfights against other jets.
  6. “Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.
  7. Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?
  8. Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.
  9. The flute and the psaltery make a sweet melody, but a pleasant tongue is above them both.
  10. He has told me that their society produced on him the effect of the cool hands of saints against his cheek.