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standing joke
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There was in fact an "eternal fitness" in horse and man that was not exactly a "standing joke," but a peripatetic one.
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Then they raised a horse laugh, and the cost of that hatchet became a standing joke and a slur on my "business ability."
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Grandmother Sanford's pension had come to be a standing joke.
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His complete ignorance of nautical matters became a standing joke.
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The prowess of the British charioteers became a standing joke in Rome against the soldiers of Cæsar.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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