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take a joke
Idioms and Phrases
Accept teasing at one's own expense, as in Sam really couldn't take a joke . This idiom, often put negatively, was first recorded in 1780. Also see take it .Example Sentences
I like people who have a little bit of a little devil in them, who can also be a little bit naughty, and they can take a joke.
The short-lived newlyweds “took a joke too far by getting married,” her record label said in a statement at the time.
The lawsuit, he said, had been an attempt “to ruin us financially and destroy our ability to offer commentary critical of organizations like theirs — all because they can’t take a joke.”
“He can take a joke, and he can give a joke,” Lewis said.
In reality, she was dealing with a short-tempered narcissist who cannot take a joke.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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