tongue in cheek
also with your tongue in your cheekIf you say something tongue in cheek, you intend it to be understood as a joke, although you might appear to be serious:
He said that he was a huge fan of the president, although I suspect it was tongue in cheek.
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Humour & humorous
- a bundle of laughs idiom
- amusing
- blackly
- bring
- bundle
- crack
- don't make me laugh! idiom
- funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? idiom
- gallows humour
- jocular
- josh
- killing
- lambent
- laugh
- sarcasm
- satirize
- tickle
- witty
- wordplay
- you've got to laugh idiom
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