standing joke

In the Boeing corridors, the standing joke was that “McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing’s money.”

"It is a sort of standing joke with Leeds fans that we always get two cup ties a season - one in the League Cup, and one in the FA Cup - before we get knocked out," Rix explained.

“Comstockery is the world’s standing joke at the expense of the United States,” Shaw commented.

Former president Donald Trump spoke so often about rebuilding roads and bridges that his “infrastructure weeks” became a standing joke.

A standing joke was that if Washington’s statue could talk, the great man would say, “Here is my sword; my clothes are at the Patent Office.”