| 单词 | laughing matter |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslaughing matter laughing matter n. a subject for laughter or levity; chiefly in negative contexts as no laughing matter, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > that which causes or is subject of laughter laughterOE laughing game1530 laughing matter1549 laugh1689 scream1888 shriek1930 giggle1936 hoot1942 crack-up1961 laugher1973 the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > seriousness or solemnity > [noun] > that which is serious > a serious subject or remark no laughing matter1549 gravity1609 no joke1809 solemnity1822 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 5th Serm. sig. Riiiiv These sellers of offices shew that they beleue that there is neyther hell nor heauen. It is taken for a laughynge matter. 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1366/2 Then the audience laughed againe, and maister Latimer spake vnto them saying: why my maisters, this is no laughyng matter. I aunsweare vpon life and death. 1641 R. Wild in Roxburghe Ballads (1888) VI. 456 Bigamy of Steeples is no laughing matter. 1793 Sheridan in Sheridaniana 141 A joke in your mouth is no laughing matter. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. vii. xiv. 200 These little festivities were laughing matters. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. ix. 115 It was not exactly a laughing matter to me. 1953 I. Brody Gone with Windsors xxix. 305 Being Number One Best-Dressed Woman in the World is no laughing matter. 2004 N.Y. Times 19 Sept. ii. 29/2 At this moment in America's history, it seems, airport security is not a laughing matter. < as lemmas |
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