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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'joking about that' is a correct and appropriate phrase to use in written English.
It is most commonly used to express a particular attitude toward something said either by you or by someone else. For example: "I know you were only joking about that new job, but I think you should seriously consider it."
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At a rally outside Fresno, in the conservative Central Valley, Ms. Fiorina paced and pointed her way through an impassioned stump speech, imploring members of the "brave Tea Party" to support her, bragging about her husband's gun collection, and joking about "that other world, called San Francisco".
And I'm only partly joking about that.
Arenas said he also was joking about that.
Asked what the House was doing, Representative Devin Nunes, Republican of California and a Boehner loyalist, said: "You really have to call Cruz, I'm not even joking about that.
Stop joking about that.
I hope he was joking about that.
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Lots of my friends like to make jokes about that.
"You'll get some jokes about that".
McKinnon's Hillary freezes her face into a smile and says, flatly, "Great, Bill, I love jokes about that".
I do jokes about that stuff, and at UCB it's fine because it's all people my age and they go, "Yeah, we get it".
That means you can expect jokes about that criminal Paris mixed in with my geekgasms of joy.
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