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laughing matter

see under no joke.

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Words nearby laughing matter

laughing, laughing gas, laughing gull, laughing hyena, laughing jackass, laughing matter, laughingstock, Laughlin, Laughlin Air Force Base, laugh line, laugh off
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Example sentences from the Web for laughing matter

  • There was a hideous jocularity in some of these imperial proceedings, which, however, was no laughing-matter at the time.

    The Eighteen Christian Centuries|James White