no laughing matter

No laughing matter at the time, Coleman has since raised a smile at the events of Skopje that started with shambles but eventually led to a sense of where Wales were going under his charge.

For comedian Marlon Wayans, defending his son from transphobic and homophobic comments is no laughing matter.

My resistance wasn’t just a function of the radically changed political landscape that has made DEI concerns no laughing matter.

Its warnings, then as now, certainly sound extremely serious—McCarthyism, witch hunts, and gulags are no laughing matter.

But for Amorim, United's position is no laughing matter.