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be no laughing matter
idiom
to be very serious: 不是开玩笑，不是闹着玩儿的
It might seem funny but I tell you what, getting stuck up a tree is no laughing matter.卡在树上看起来可能很好笑，不过我跟你讲，这可不是闹着玩儿的。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Lacking humour
a laugh a minuteidiom
beyond
beyond a jokeidiom
earnest
earnestly
earnestness
humourless
humourlessly
intense
lightly
saturnine
sober
soberly
solemnity
sombrely
sombreness
straight-facedly
turgid
turgidity
turgidly
be no laughing matter
idiom
C2
to be very serious and not a situation that people should joke about: 需严肃对待的事，不是开玩笑的事
Being arrested by the police is no laughing matter.被警方逮捕可不是开玩笑的事。
The risks of passive smoking are no laughing matter.
Nut allergies are no laughing matter to the people who suffer from them.
Unfortunately, the reasons behind his weight loss are no laughing matter.
People who have experienced bullying at work insist it's no laughing matter.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Serious and severe
acutely
acuteness
advanced
catastrophic
catastrophically
chronic
dire
fatal
grave
grievously
heaviness
hyperacute
non-fatal
non-serious
seriously
swingeing
terminal
terminally
toughness
utmost
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