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beyond a joke

prep_phrase

Definitions

  1. Increasingly serious or harmful.

    • 'I may say that I noticed you in court today, sir, and putting one thing and another together—' 'Quite right,' assented Carrados. 'It is about today's case. These post office hold-ups are getting beyond a joke, inspector.'

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for beyond a joke. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA