| 词汇 | no laughing matter |
| 释义 | no laughing matterno laughing matter informalSERIOUS/NOT JOKING something serious that should not be joked about 严肃的事，不是闹着玩的事 It’s no laughing matter having to walk by a group of rowdy drunks every night just to get home. 每天晚上回家都得从一群吵吵闹闹的醉汉身边经过，可不是开玩笑的事。 Examples from the Corpus no laughing matter• Dole and his staff know that age discrimination is no laughing matter.• But Dole and his staff know the age issue is no laughing matter.• But it is no laughing matter.• But the issue of physicians and their handwriting is no laughing matter.• I am a gout sufferer, and it's no laughing matter.• The second Fleet Street sensation was no laughing matter.• They looked as though they knew already that life was no laughing matter.• This Jell-O-head business is no laughing matter.• It is no laughing matter, however. → no laughing matter at laugh1(3) |
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