| 单词 | tongue in cheek |
| 释义 | tongue in cheek phrase See full dictionary entry for tongue A tongue-in-cheek remark or attitude is not serious, although it may seem to be. ...a lighthearted, tongue-in-cheek approach. This is all slightly tongue-in-cheek, I'd like to make that clear. Were they written tongue-in-cheek, or with an underlying conviction? tongue-in-cheek tongue Collocations: tongue-in-cheek humour While this computer program evidently has a recognition code for every cliché in the genre, it lacks one for tongue-in-cheek humour. Times, Sunday Times As that 'teach the world to sing' trail indicates, it's also a station that shares the tongue-in-cheek humour of the music it plays. Times, Sunday Times The image sums up her combination of intellectual inquiry into desire and subjectivity, but handled with tongue-in-cheek humour and ease. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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