half-jokingly

He was no churchgoer, but asked what his next target would be after communism, he replied, only half-jokingly, "the devil" .

"First you must convert to Islam, " he said, apparently only half- jokingly, and referred all questions to a spokesman, Saifullah Mehsud.

"Too much hard work, I'm beginning to realize that. " Beijing bid official Wang Wei said, only half-jokingly.

In Singapore, a senior Asian executive asked his American buddy half jokingly whether Asians or Americans are more prone to corruption?

"What do they say? " answers Akie, half-jokingly. "'A good husband is healthy and never at home. '"

Once I asked him half-jokingly, inquiring whether or not he had dropped by the local strip club.

MH: I sometimes half-jokingly refer to myself as "the world's leading anti-pi propagandist" .

They were talking about the possibility of a weekend trip when Su said, half-jokingly, that they might just go to France.

China's affluent now sometimes half-jokingly call the ranking the Death List.

For now, he says, half-jokingly, "if obese people plan their holidays, they might not go to the sea, but maybe to the mountains. "

One Japanese diplomat, half jokingly, called the test "a gift" from Kim Jong-il, North Korea's dictator.

"An iPad? " I ventured, half-jokingly.

Unfortunately, one of the things I say half-jokingly is that you don't have a counterfeiting problem unless you have a hot brand.

This is thanks not only to its wealth and population, but also to what others call, only half-jokingly, its Rolls-Royce bureaucracy.

Later, my friend suddenly half jokingly suggested, simply za a pair put this porcelain swap? Let's meet, they met, all is fate?

Zhou Jihong said half jokingly.