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Meaning and usage of tongue-in-cheek

December 1st, 2010 No comments

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Here are some usages:

Members of PETA have protested – tongue-in-cheek - against cruelty to animals by clothing animals in designer clothes.

When the Prime Minister was asked by the foreign press if her country was leaning towards the Left, she replied tongue-in-cheek, “We stand straight.”

Sara’s novel is a tongue-in-cheek account of what will happen to the world if it were ruled by monkeys.

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