in jest

I've realized that you scaring me was all in jest. Allow me to say, job well done.

Look I know my lid is starting to look a little lean, but I don't need a woman reminding me. . . even if it's in jest.

Daydreaming together can be a very romantic and emotional experience, whether it is fully in jest or in a degree of serious contemplation.

Moroccan women worried half in jest whether, as in Saudi Arabia, they would no longer be allowed to drive.

Although he made his remark in jest, the underlying jab was felt.

Khrushchev: [In jest] You look very angry, as if you want to fight me.

So you know I say half in jest but it's actually really sad.

Two days before the inauguration, when a preacher told a crowd that Mr Obama was not the Messiah, he was booed (in jest, one hopes).

some clients, she said, have suggested in jest that maybe Sherr could sell it.

Children will pin pictures of fish to a friends back in jest.

And, half in jest, he recommends giving a new company eager for recognition a name beginning with A.

"How can a country that blocks YouTube ever be a financial powerhouse? " asks one market analyst, only half in jest.

Never comes (aught) to them of a renewed Message from their Lord, but they listen to it as in jest.

I said in jest I would marry Jim.

He spoke in jest when he asked me to marry him.

Some argue that the term is meant mostly in jest, comparing it to describing the rich as "toffs" .

You cannot be always sure whether he is in jest or earnest .

A steakhouse dinner date went south after she told her companion in jest that he was holding his knife and fork in the wrong hands.

But if he speaks in jest, his words are idle among men who cannot receive them.

Martinis "make me hate the people I love and love the people I hate, " a woman once commented in jest.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest. ~Henry David Thoreau.

A former spymaster, Rafi Eitan, even suggested half in jest that a rival service may have framed the Israelis.

He adds, perhaps in jest, that most textile workers are Muslim, so "if a young boy doesn't work he will end up a terrorist. "

His reply was taken half seriously, half in jest.

Although spoken in jest, geography has indeed influenced the station of Gejiu's men.

Thus, Rahula, you should train yourself, 'I will not tell a deliberate lie even in jest.

While there is much said in jest here, there's also much said in truth.

invited them all, in jest, to some ladies' punch, hot, strong and sweet.

I only said it in jest.

That is why I laugh at myself and shatter my secret in jest.

though it was said in jest , it was a natural question for an englishman

gob , there s many a true word spoken in jest