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词汇 beyond-a-joke
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beyond a joke


idiom
mainly UK
If something is beyond a joke, it has stopped being funny and is now a serious matter: 超出开玩笑的限度;令人极为难堪(或恼火)
I used to think he was funny, but his behaviour has now gone way beyond a joke.我曾经以为他滑稽有趣,但他现在的行为已不是开玩笑的问题了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Lacking humour
a laugh a minuteidiom
be no laughing matteridiom
beyond
earnest
earnestly
earnestness
humourless
humourlessly
intense
lightly
saturnine
sober
soberly
solemnity
sombrely
sombreness
straight-facedly
turgid
turgidity
turgidly

Examples of beyond a joke


beyond a joke
The contemptuous way that we are being treated is beyondajoke.
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It has gone so far beyondajoke that we accept it as a matter of course.
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I share his views that matters have reached the point where the delay has gone beyondajoke and has become unacceptable.
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Indeed, to dignify this concoction with the title of a scheme is beyondajoke.
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We have elevated the legal aspects of this matter beyondajoke.
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The situation is beyondajoke, and has been so for quite a long time.
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The present scale of wrong numbers and crossed lines is, to my mind, beyondajoke.
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It is beyondajoke even more so if the litigation in which one is involved is acutely anxious litigation involving children or family finances.
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The matter has gone far beyondajoke, and perhaps the time for serious speeches has also passed.
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I believe that the term "fish farming"is much better and that"aquaculture" is really going beyondajoke.
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There will be so many assemblies in this country that it will be beyondajoke.
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There are certain matters which are carried beyondajoke.
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The matter is getting beyondajoke.
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The situation is getting beyondajoke.
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It has now got beyondajoke.
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