laughing matter


see under no joke.

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How to use laughing matter in a sentence

  • To Dorothy, this visit of Miss Watling's to the farm proved everything but a laughing matter.

    The World Before Them | Susanna Moodie
  • "You can make fun if you want to, but I think it is no laughing matter," observed Fred.

    The Rover Boys on the Farm | Arthur M. Winfield (AKA Edward Stratemeyer)
  • "If you consider wrecked nerves like mine a laughing matter—" he broke out.

    Red Pepper Burns | Grace S. Richmond
  • Still, on the whole, it was no laughing matter, and Pawnee Brown lost no time in trying to dig himself free.

    The Boy Land Boomer | Ralph Bonehill
  • It was no laughing matter with Estella now, nor was she summoning these remembrances from any shallow place.

    Great Expectations | Charles Dickens