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bad joke en · NOUN

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic) A situation that is badly planned, or illogical.
   • Perhaps if he spent less time putting really bad jokes on Twitter (How should you drain pasta at Christmas? Use an Advent Colander - yes really!), the minister might know what is happening in his Department. 2020 December 30, Christian Wolmar, “An annus horribilis... and 2021 looks just as bleak”, in Rail, page 35:
   • Upon seeing Keyes' face, 15 MSNBC executives promptly resigned. Alan Keyes? Alan Keyes Is Making Sense Alan Keyes? You've gotta be kidding me. Incidentally, the name of that show always seemed like a bad joke to me. 2007, Keith Olbarmann, Countdown with Keith Olbermann:
   • Disarmament must be total, or it was merely "a bad joke". 1938, Robert William Seton-Watson, Britain and the Dictators: A Survey of Post-war British Policy, page 172:
   • This might be a bad joke for you and to the people able to fly back to Miami but this is not a joke at all to me. 2002, Cesar Guerra, Hijacked to Havana!, page 28:
   • Mayor Smith's new traffic rules were a bad joke.
   • "Maybe it was just a bad joke. " "A bad joke!" shrieked David, and in that cry I could detect all the ancient terrors of Israel. 1986, Claire Martin, The Legacy, page 25:
   • It is this bad joke which, almost one century later, was still to be found in the government's campaign of 'We are Europe' from 1994. 2002, Mikael af Malmborg, Bo Stråth, The Meaning of Europe, page 272:
   • But it is amusing to note that whenever the tables were turned on him he would mutter "Bad joke. Very bad joke". 1940, Kenelm Foss, Here Lies Richard Brinsley Sheridan, page 267:

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fi huono pila (situation) · fr travail d'Arabe (situation) · sh неслана шала (situation)