"joke" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "This must be an absurd joke," Hana Marvanova, a member of Parliament and former dissident, said by phone before abruptly hanging up.
- Philip D. Beidler opines that "one of the novel's great absurd jokes is that character's bewildering resemblance to Henry Fonda".
- My first idea was that I had been the victim of some absurd practical joke.
- The village is depicted by Nicolăescu-Plopşor as a place in which poverty is met with self-irony, resulting in absurd jokes.
- Other absurd jokes in the support page from question 4 including a reference to Jabberwocky.
- For those nostalgic for outrageous Internet ads, there are what Mr. De Vito described as "absurd" jokes in the Go.com radio commercials, which use exaggeration for effect.
- The style suggested that what the film portrayed - aides stoned on the job, administrators drinking in the middle of the day, absurd jokes seemingly made at the expense of residents - was real.
- If life was an absurd and tasteless joke, why couldn't art adopt the same stance?
- Every time the breakthrough maneuver had been frustrated, until the very term "operational-maneuver group" sounded like some kind of absurd joke.
- He took his time telling the story, didn't turn it all into an absurd joke and then just played the song, alone onstage.
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