Sentence examples for funny term from inspiring English sources

Funny term, bulldog.

"Social hours" - what a funny term for people working from dawn to dusk and then dusk until dawn with little if any repose.

Whoopee! "Speakeasy is a funny term, since the business is legal," said Eric Alperin, a partner and head bartender at the Varnish.

"Cannot" is a funny term when applied to actions that are, technically, entirely under one's control — like when a teen-ager just can't tell his parents something.

When asked about his biggest worry for Microsoft's future, he dismisses the notion of worry as "a funny term," as if it were an alien concept.

"Snail mail" is a funny term I use to describe the U.S. Postal Service, because it delivers mail the way a snail would (reliably, in two to three days).

I was immediately shouted down and told, in very funny terms, that I was out of my mind.

No? Well if you were to learn about poetry in a formal way, you'd be bombarded by all sort of funny terms which are used to describe the way verse is written, including metric feet, meter and iambs.

It unearths the tension of adolescent sexuality in frank and funny terms – especially the shaming of virginity.

Recasting this phenomenon in funnier terms, Payne considers today's celebrity perfume industry:"Have you ever given someone Intimately Beckham for Her? Did you ever receive Lovely, by Sarah Jessica Parker?

It is hard to see how an analysis of the funny in terms of amusement, which is then characterized in terms of seeing something as funny, elucidates anything.