Sentence examples for a joke of him from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a joke of him" is not correct in standard English.
A more appropriate expression would be "a joke by him" or "a joke from him."
Example: "That was a hilarious joke by him during the meeting."
Alternatives: "his joke" or "a joke he made."

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Joseph Sigit, an Indonesian who worked as the office manager at the time, told me, "Our staff here sometimes made a joke of him because he looked different — the color of his skin".

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Whoever was running the TelePrompTer cued up Obama's speech by mistake (for the Irishman), which he then began reading... and then Obama made a joke of it by immediately thanking him as "President Obama"... much to the amusement of the press, who laughed loudly at Obama's ad lib.

Assume he's a friend playing a joke, of course, and hang up on him.

Hallyday, the US-style French-language rocker who has sold more than 100m albums and played live to 28 million people, has always made a joke of his record labels not pushing him on to the US and UK markets.

"He's not a fan of what I'm doing," says Murga. "He feels it's making a joke out of him".

A joke, of course.

A joke of demureness.

"It's a joke of course".

He could make a joke of it.

Konstantin makes a joke of her ambivalence.

Making a joke of everything.

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