Sentence examples for explained as a joke from inspiring English sources
The problem was that whilst his exploits could be explained as a joke amongst friends that unintentionally slipped out, with no malicious intent, the TV footage took it on a step.
His nickname is explained as "a typical masculine joke, a crude homemade weapon that indiscriminately sprayed hostility and insecurity in a 360-degree radius".
So yes, I drive an SUV". The comment, which Driscoll later explained away as a joke, highlights what has been a long history of religious anti-environmentalism.
Hurley and his crew cross the road to not just explain a joke, but explain all jokes.
As is frequently the case, explaining a joke robs it of its hilarity, so the curious are perhaps better advised to go to nbc.com/30Rock and watch the video of Episode 202, titled "Jack Gets in the Game".
As Charlie Brooker wrote this week, if you explain a joke you spoil it.
When Indonesia's anti-drug chief, Budi Waseso, announced plans to guard a death-row prison island with crocodiles earlier this week, pointing out that they can't be bribed, the government rushed to explain the idea away as just a joke.
"In China," she explains, with a joking, authoritarian tone as she taps her left foot, "golden bamboo is dead bamboo". Lucas smiles.
Of course, to verbally describe a cartoon is to explain a joke, defuse it, ruin it.
(You can almost hear the rush of deflation when someone pauses to explain a joke).
