Take A Joke

Definition: Take A Joke

1. Listen to a joke at one's one expense; Can't you take a joke?".

Synonyms within Context: Take A Joke

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Intelligence Wisdom	Verb: be -intelligent; Adjective: have all one's wits about one; understand; (intelligible); catch an idea, take in an idea; take a joke, take a hint.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Usage: Take A Joke

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I'm only pulling your leg! It's a joke! I'm not him! I'm just having you on! Put me back! Bloody Romans! Can't take a joke! (Life of Brian; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese)
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Commercial Usage: Take A Joke

Domain	Title
Music	Take a Joke America [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Use in Literature: Take A Joke

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Marius was too sad to take a joke kindly even from chance, or to lend himself to the game which the street pavement seemed to wish to play with him.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions: Take A Joke

Expressions using "take a joke": can't take a joke ♦ he can't take a joke ♦ she can't take a joke. Additional references.
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Modern Translation: Take A Joke

Language		Translations for "take a joke"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		er versteht keinen Spaß (he can't take a joke). (various references)

Pig Latin		aketay aay okejay

Turkish		şakadan anlamaz (can't take a joke, devoid of humor, devoid of humour, he can't take a joke, lacking in humor, lacking in humour, she can't take a joke), şaka kaldırmaz (he can't take a joke, she can't take a joke). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Take A Joke

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-j-k-k-o-t"
	-5 letters: ajee, akee, jake, jato, jete, joke, jota, kaka, kata, keek, keet, keto, taka, take, teak, toea, toke.
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