beyond a joke
mainly UK If something is beyond a joke, it has stopped being funny and is now a serious matter:
I used to think he was funny, but his behaviour has now gone way beyond a joke.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Lacking humour
- be no laughing matter idiom
- beyond
- earnest
- humourless
- laugh
- lightly
- mirthless
- po-faced
- poker-faced
- rofl
- serious
- seriously
- sober
- solemnity
- sombre
- starchily
- starchy
- take a joke idiom
- turgid
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