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no laughing matter |
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no laughing matter a serious issue or problem. Be serious. This is no laughing matter. This disease is no laughing matter. It's quite deadly if not treated immediately. no laughing matter something serious that people should not make jokes about A wound on your foot is no laughing matter when you're a diabetic. Related vocabulary: no joke 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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It was no laughing matter with Estella now, nor was she summoning these remembrances from any shallow place. “It is no laughing matter, let me tell you, sir; the forty dollars of bounty and your six months of salary will be much reduced before you can get the matter fairly settled. There came a day when the rain fell in torrents; and it being December, to be wet with it and have to sit all day long in one of the cold cellars of Brown's was no laughing matter. |
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