tongue-in-cheek
Meaning: Joking or sarcastic.
Language: English
Literally: (Already vivid in English)
Category: Body & Senses
Origin: The expression describes a style of speech.
More idioms — Body & Senses
- turn a deaf ear — To ignore someone.
- turn the other cheek — Not to retaliate; not to pay back bad behavior with more bad behavior.
- turn up one's nose at something or someone — To scorn, snub, or reject something.
- under someone's thumb — Under someone's control.
- with bated breath — Hardly breathing at all because of fear, excitement, or other strong emotion.
- Tomber dans les pommes — Suddenly losing consciousness — possibly derived from the older expression 'être dans les…
More English idioms
- when hell freezes over — Never.
- beat about the bush — To speak or write evasively; to talk around an issue.
- beat the bushes — To search exhaustively.
- between the devil and the deep blue sea — Facing two difficult outcomes for the same situation.
- down to earth — Practical and rational; unpretentious.
- fair-weather friend — A person who is loyal in good times but not when times are difficult.
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