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Collocations for joke - noun

ADJECTIVE

amusing, funny, good, hilarious
She didn't seem to find my jokes amusing.
old
That's an old joke—I've heard it lots of times.
bad, corny, dumb (AmE), lame, silly, stupid, unfunny (esp. BrE)
cruel, sick
racist, sexist
crude, dirty, off-colour/off-color (esp. AmE)
inside (esp. AmE), private
They kept telling inside jokes about people I didn't know.
running
The show features a running joke about a nosy dog.
practical
His brothers were always playing practical jokes.
huge
It's all just a huge joke to you, isn't it?

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VERB + joke

crack, make, tell
He's excellent at telling jokes.
play
He's always playing jokes on people.
exchange, have (esp. BrE), share
She likes to share a joke with her employees.
hear
appreciate, enjoy, get, laugh at, like, understand
We all fell about laughing, but he didn't get the joke.
She doesn't like jokes about her height.
remember
spoil
He told us the ending, completely spoiling the joke.
miss
Am I missing the joke here?
take
The trouble is she can't take a joke.
treat sth as
He treated his exams as a huge joke.

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joke + VERB

fall flat
The audience wasn't very responsive and the jokes fell flat.
be on sb
I thought I'd play a trick on them, but in the end the joke was on me.

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PREPOSITION

as a joke
It was only said as a joke.
joke about
Have you heard the joke about the elephant and the mouse?

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PHRASES

make a joke of sth
We tried to make a joke of our situation, but it wasn't really funny.

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Collocations for joke - verb

ADVERB

half
She was only half joking about being president one day.
around
Everyone just joked around and enjoyed themselves.
lamely, weakly
good-naturedly, playfully

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PREPOSITION

about
We joked about the amount of equipment we had to carry.
with
She's always joking with her friends.

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PHRASES

be only joking
Don't worry, I'm only joking!
joking apart (BrE), joking aside (= used to show you are now being serious after you have said sth funny)
laugh and joke
They laughed and joked as they walked along.
you must be joking, you've got to be joking (esp. AmE)
No way am I doing that. You must be joking!

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