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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. schoolboy humour (British & Australian) also schoolboy humor (American & Australian) stupid jokes that are rude but not very offensive Isn't he a bit old for this type of schoolboy humour? How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Starsky is more humorlessly obsessive, hair-trigger violent and sensitive about his late mother's reputation as a better cop; Hutch has actual criminal tendencies to complement his laid-back approach to law enforcement. I've always loved this trolley, once so humorlessly championed by October. And there is also a deep and, I suspect, honest desire to amuse the bourgeois soul (remember, she is from Germany, where amusement is sometimes at a premium), even if she has to do it with gentle shocks and humorlessly momentous incongruity. |
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