half-joking

The great George Soros was only half-joking when he said, "Buy first, investigate later. "

It's going to be the first time they're going to see a video of their father doing something positive in life, only half-joking.

If you asked me , you know, why am I not in favor of bombing Japan, well, I'm only half - joking when I say they built my car, OK .

The tone of my half-joking voice, the word "sheep, " and the memory of the chain make him cringe a little.

Mr Millin inquired, half-joking, whether he should walk up and down in the traditional way of pipers.

As an American, he is only half joking about his homeland's demands for a cure for everything.

Although I'm half joking, being able to spot an Internet centric platform or infrastructure is fairly self evident for the most part.

Robert Chua is only half-joking when he says he launched the world's first reality television show.

MANY Israeli start-ups should pay royalties to the army, says Edouard Cukierman, a venture capitalist in Tel Aviv. He is only half joking.

Calling her coach stepmother is a half-joking thing but the coach told me a stepmother was also a kind of mother.

Half-joking but curious, his studies began with a survey he conducted in 2001 among regular players of an online game, Everquest.

CHINA'S big banks each "have almost more branches than we have employees" , says one Western bank boss. He is only half joking.

"We're taking a survey, " she says half-joking. "Do you think I should have a baby? "

"We're taking a survey, " she says, half-joking.

My 17-year-old son's peers are only half-joking when they tell him that, because he is half Chinese, half Indian, he has it made.