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gallows humour
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gallows humour  (British & Australian) also gallows humor (American & Australian)
humour that makes unpleasant things, such as death, seem funny
Usage notes: The gallows are a wooden frame used in the past for killing criminals by hanging them from a rope tied around their neck.
Many of the patients I worked with knew they were dying. There was a lot of gallows humour.
See also: humour
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Employees who had once seen themselves in every plane that flew overhead were now trading in gallows humor.
WHEN THE LAID-OFF ARE BETTER OFF by Michelle Conlin / BusinessWeek
Others though, were uncomfortable with the gallows humor, with several saying they found joking about the flu epidemic, well, sick.
Amid the masks and mortality, Mexicans joke about flu by AFP / AFP Global Edition
A cartoon by Mike Luckovich in Atlanta Journal-Constitution takes gallows humor to the gallows.
Banking on bankruptcy in United States by Arab News (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
 
 
 
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