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Meanings of makes a joke in English

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Usage of makes a joke in English
1
If he makes a joke, make damn sure you laugh at it.'
The Pilo Family Circus
2
Some one makes a joke, all are laughing together in amity.
The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia
3
He makes a joke, that he didn't always have military care.
The new yorker
4
If he panics, he does it silently, then makes a joke.
Wired
5
A politician makes a joke which she later regrets.
The Guardian
6
It makes a joke and a farce of courts.
The Irish Times
7
Hope makes a joke about rape and rapier wit.
Feminist dot com
8
For change, she makes a joke of this, and plays with it, and laughs at it.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction
9
Monsieur le Comte makes a joke of everything.
London Pride, Or, When the World Was Younger
10
Michael Ginsberg makes a joke about Peggy masturbating.
The Guardian
11
She makes a joke about me being old.
The Guardian
12
National Party leader Judith Collins said the escape makes a joke of the whole managed isolation system.
Radio NZ
13
He is so wise that he never makes a joke unless it has some point in it.
The Farringdons
14
Rifkind makes a joke of his eagerness.
The Guardian
15
On one of the few occasions that a character makes a joke, he finds that 'no one laughed'.
The Guardian
16
He then makes a joke about his "seed".
News.com.au
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