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standing joke Definition | Englisch Cobuild Wörterbuch

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standing joke  

     ( standing jokes    plural  ) If something is a standing joke among a group of people, they often make jokes about it.      n-count   usu sing  
Her precision became a standing joke with colleagues.     
Englisches Collins Wörterbuch - Englische Synonyme & Thesaurus  

Kollaboratives Wörterbuch     Englisch Cobuild
exp.
just joking
n.
Someone (usually a young man) who tries unsuccessfully to be funny by making lame jokes and doing stupid things
n.
stagnate decay, decline, deteriorate, fester, go to seed, idle , languish , lie fallow, rot, rust, stand still, vegetate


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