Sentence examples for much a joke from inspiring English sources

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How about this, it's not so much a joke, more a one-liner.

"As you know, my pharmacist thinks you're pretty much a joke, and he's not filling your prescriptions," one patient, James Markeley, said recently.

Marc Camoletti's script, translated by Beverley Cross, has been dusted off a bit but not much: a joke about Muslims and harems has been banished, but a few jests at the Germans stay in.

The old joke that 'Macroeconomists have successfully predicted nine of the last five recessions' is not so much a joke as a dispiriting truth about the difficulty of economic forecasting.

To see Oracle promote its own Linux distribution and attack a rival is pretty much a joke.

We all know that security is pretty much a joke to begin with how many times do you hear of people who make it through security with a huge knife in their pocket by mistake?—but at the very least the TSA has provided a pretty reasonable alternative to being full-body scanned.

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There's not much story here (nor much of a joke either, to be frank), but Holland's mixed-media charcoals and collage offer enough to interest the eye, and embellished with improvised animal sounds and song, it could be an entertaining read-aloud.

So, as a humourlesss feminazi, if I really need to explain that threatening to slit my throat and rape my entrails is not much of a joke, then perhaps we just haven't had that much feminism.

How much is a joke worth?

And really, his joke wasn't much of a joke.

Most of the time he'll say, 'That sounds too much like a joke.

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