running joke
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈrʌnɪŋ dʒoʊk/
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broma recurrente
- In our group, it's a running joke that Sarah always forgets her lunch.
- became a running joke
- long-running joke
- running joke for years
No, it's like the running joke in the writers room is that's that's not bad.
- No, it's like the running joke in the writers room is that's that's not bad.
- Like the running joke between you is that she spends too much at Target.
- Like often, often like batch will be like doing this running joke or like make these references all the time.
- And it was the running joke in my family that my youngest sister was the Schwann's man's baby.
- And it's like this whole running joke and the T situation.
- This could be a good so a running joke of like why Lex is single, this could be a good part for so.
Examples
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It's kind of a running joke in our family.
Blog text (30) -
Yeah, that's a running joke.
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"Sorry!" His age is a running joke between us.
Fiction book (2002) -
It's a running joke we have.
Academic text (2002) -
So, OK, it's a running joke here in Texas, you know.
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The running joke here is that you can throw a rock and hit an IT developer.
Blog text (14) -
This became a running joke, and we brought it up for years afterward.
Academic text (2015) -
Fox's grandmother story is a running joke.
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My husband's running joke is that my excuse for everything is, "That's not good for the baby."
Blog text (14) -
In fact, there's a running joke in the sales industry that salespeople usually make more money than the people they're working for or selling.
Synonyms
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3.7
A joke that is repeated in a show or conversation to be funny
How Persistent
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3.5
- Informal
15
3.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase combines 'running' (ongoing/continuous) with 'joke' (an amusing remark), so the meaning 'a joke that recurs over time' is directly derivable from the constituents. This compositional pattern (an ongoing/continuous X) is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The phrase running joke comes from the idea of running meaning 'continuing' through a group, like a small joke that keeps showing up in different conversations. That's why a running joke means a joke people repeat again and again over time.