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Examples
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Lookin At Lucky will only have to deal with a 14-horse field at Pimlico, though Baffert is only half-kidding when he says he'll scratch the horse if he draws the first post again.
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You can tell that Mr. Phillips is only half-kidding about the comparison.
Out of the Miasma of Bardolatry, a Masterpiece Sam Sacks 2011
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I'm half-kidding, but the article does say that Cruz' role in this should be "edgy" or "tranchant" in French.
Confirmed: Penélope Cruz Cast in Lars von Trier's Melancholia « FirstShowing.net 2010
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I said we should go to Cafe Japone and sing some karaoke, but I was half-kidding.
Date Lab: She loves the Red Sox; he's a Yankees fan. Doomed? Post 2010
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I said, only half-kidding, "While you're at it, can you please tell him that freelance writing is tight, and that I would love a full time creative exec job?"
Jennifer Evans Gardner: The Uncomfortable Lightness of Being Unemployed 2010
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"These people need their trips to Baja, their spa treatments, their hand jobs," says an official involved in the AIG bailout, a serious look on his face, apparently not even half-kidding.
Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Peasants with torches: now playing in Connecticutt 2009
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Someone commented on her status, (likely only half-kidding), "Can you put her back in the womb until the playoffs are over?"
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[I'm half-kidding, of course, but there are more things in this world than are dreamt of in your philosophy Horatio!]
McCain's Hero Petraeus: "I Do Think You Have To Talk To Enemies" 2009
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"We're not building, we're fixing," says A.J. Loeffler, only half-kidding.
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Shortly thereafter, I received another e-mail from him in which he said he was only half-kidding about that whole "getting involved in porn" thing from his previous e-mail.
Dave Hill: On Seeing Naked Pictures Of My Friend's Wife 2008
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