Indeed, he had come to treat the event as a family joke.

It's a family joke that I can't fry an egg.

It had become for a while a family joke.

It was a family joke, the saint business, but one we could almost believe.

Selling the children to the Turoks was a family joke.

Through the years, what had been a bitter source of friction became a family joke.

There was general laughter at the last remark, which had the flavor of a family joke.

As the family joke went, they had a "nose" for it.

Here some family joke exploded, which Katharine could not follow.

His fantasies about the little girl were a family joke.