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laughing matter

see under no joke.

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Words nearby laughing matter

laugher, laughing, laughing gas, laughing gull, laughing jackass, laughing matter, laughing stock, laughingstock, laughlin, laughlin air force base, laughter
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Examples 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