no joking matter

no joking matter
joking joking adj. intended as a joke; -- of communications.

Syn: jesting, jocose, jocular, jocund. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

{no joking matter} a serious matter. [PJC]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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