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it's a joke, Joyce

it's a joke, Joyce interjection: that was a joke, so don't take it seriously.

Interjection

  1. (Australia, informal) That was a joke, so don't take it seriously.
    • Scientists are an amusing lot, often with a Monty Python sense of fun. When they say elementary particles such as quarks have charm and strangeness, it's a joke, Joyce.2005, Damien Broderick, Ferocious Minds: Polymathy and the New Enlightenment, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 128
    • This book, like so many of mine, is an account of a journey I made to what I've rather cheekily called the Far East. Some people's eyebrows were raised at the expression, thinking it suggested that here in the UK we're still at the centre of the world […] But as my Australian fiancée, Sarah, might...2009, Rick Stein, Rick Stein's Far Eastern Odyssey, Random House, →ISBN, page 9

Forms of it's a joke, Joyce

alternative formjoke Joyce

Origin of it's a joke, Joyce

Slight alteration of "That was a joke, Joyce," catchphrase of George Wilson (played by Graham Kennedy) spoken to his wife Joyce (Rosie Sturgess) in The Wilsons, a segment featured regularly on Kennedy-presented show In Melbourne Tonight in the 1960s.

Questions about it's a joke, Joyce

What does it's a joke, Joyce mean?
It's a joke, Joyce means that was a joke, so don't take it seriously.
What part of speech is it's a joke, Joyce?
It's a joke, Joyce is an interjection.

Words near it's a joke, Joyce in the dictionary

  1. it's
  2. it's a date
  3. it's a deal
  4. it's a feature, not a bug
  5. it's a free country
  6. it's a joke, Joyce
  7. it's a jungle out there
  8. it's a long road that has no turning
  9. it's a man's world
  10. it's a matter of time
  11. it's a pleasure

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