English English Dictionary

joke in English:

1. about

Think about it.

Something you should know about me is that I spend a lot of time reading.

Tom asked Mary to see about getting front row seats at the Lady Gaga concert.

Didn't you know that he passed away about two years ago?

How far is it from here to your school? "It's about ten minute's walk."

Sooner or later, every parent has to have a talk with their children about the birds and the bees.

I asked many people about the store, but no one had heard of it.

Complaining about something is one way to adapt yourself to a new environment.

Even when she thought about something else, ideas of death returned to her mind.

He wasn't about to pass up that once-in-a-lifetime chance.

Prime numbers are like life; they are completely logical, but impossible to find the rules for, even if you spend all your time thinking about it.

We argued with each other about the best place for a holiday.

A mysterious legend has been handed down about this lake.

Sorry, but it all came about so suddenly that I haven't got a handle on the situation yet.

2. QUIP

He quipped that the computer was probably run by Windows.

humorous quips. common quip, known quip, sarcastic quip, witty quip, irreverent quip

English word "joke"(QUIP) occurs in sets:

VOCABULARY week 11

3. joke

It's no joke.

A cracker contains a small toy, a paper hat and a piece of paper with a joke.

In the same way, a Russian might fail to see anything amusing in a joke which would make an Englishman laugh to tears.

You're probably going to think this is a joke, but I was a punk rocker when I was a kid.

The joke about the chicken crossing the road to get to the other side is an example of "anti-humor": meant to be funny because, on the surface, it is not.

What kind of jokes should be forbidden?

Whether we find a joke funny or not largely depends on where we have been brought up.

In fact, there is a joke about passport photos: If you really look like the picture in your passport, you certainly need a vacation!

An Englishman, a Belgian and a Dutchman enter a pub and sit down at the counter. Says the barkeeper, "Wait a minute, is this a joke or what?"

Of course he thought it was a joke and let it slide with a "hm?" but he was seriously annoyed. I mean, just don't say things like that even as a joke!

Christopher Columbus once used the same joke 256 times in one day... thereby causing his entire crew to die of laughter.

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with someone else.

If you repeat a joke two hundred fifty six times, it will set everybody's teeth on edge.