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old joke

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meanings of oldand joke


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old
adjective
uk /əʊld/ us /oʊld/
having lived or existed for ...
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joke
noun
uk /dʒəʊk/ us /dʒoʊk/
something, such as a funny story or trick, that is said or done in order to make ...
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Examples of old joke


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By the 1860s, it was already an oldjoke that lawyers were the primary beneficiaries of bankruptcy law.
That is an oldjoke now.
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That is a pretty oldjoke.
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That is an oldjoke, but it is true.
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There is an oldjoke about three ways of losing money.
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It is an oldjoke that we are two nations divided by a common language.
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I know the oldjoke about statistics, drunks and lamp-posts.
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First—it is a very oldjoke—it is a very little one.
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We all know the oldjoke about his leaning on his shovel.
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That is a very oldjoke, and is not allowed in my constituency.
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There is an oldjoke about the man who claimed to be a model husband.
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I do not want to make the oldjoke, but in the circumstances it would be, appropriate.
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There is an oldjoke about a man who goes to see his doctor complaining that his brother thinks that he is a chicken.
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It reads like the oldjoke: whisky when you are well makes you ill; whisky makes you well when you are ill.
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They had no money to pay each other, and the oldjoke was that they could only live by taking in each other's washing.
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But the fact is that, as the oldjoke says, 'if you line up all the economists around the world head to toe, you may never reach a conclusion'.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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