make a joke (out) of something

JOKEto treat something serious as if it was intended to be funny 拿〔严肃的事〕开玩笑

He could not bring himself to apologise. Instead, he tried to make a joke of it.

他没法开口道歉，就想拿这件事情开个玩笑蒙混过去。

Examples from the Corpus

make a joke (out) of something• My mother always makes a joke of everything.• I'd made a joke of it.• He makes a joke of the injury because, at 59, it is an inconvenience rather than a disaster.• You had your own reasons for making the call, and why not make a joke out of it?• That readiness to make a joke of life had been temporarily eclipsed.• We made a joke of it, the way Charles always came loaded with books on some new subject.

→ make a joke (out) of something at joke1(5)

单词	make a joke (out) of something
释义	make a joke (out) of something make a joke (out) of something JOKEto treat something serious as if it was intended to be funny 拿〔严肃的事〕开玩笑 He could not bring himself to apologise. Instead, he tried to make a joke of it. 他没法开口道歉，就想拿这件事情开个玩笑蒙混过去。 Examples from the Corpus make a joke (out) of something• My mother always makes a joke of everything.• I'd made a joke of it.• He makes a joke of the injury because, at 59, it is an inconvenience rather than a disaster.• You had your own reasons for making the call, and why not make a joke out of it?• That readiness to make a joke of life had been temporarily eclipsed.• We made a joke of it, the way Charles always came loaded with books on some new subject. → make a joke (out) of something at joke1(5)
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