Examples
“The crass appropriation of Christian imagery in the name of tongue-in-cheek kitsch increasingly makes me flinch - but quietly, as I don't want to come across as some sort of po-faced fundie, now, do I?”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“In 1950, Stephen Potter, the British author of Gamesmanship and Lifemanship and the coiner of one-upmanship, gave the word a tongue-in-cheek sense of “a maneuver to gain the better of an opponent or co-worker.””
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
“Justice Breyer's obviously tongue-in-cheek question supplies its own answer.”
The Huffington Post: Dennis A. Henigan: Reading the Constitution: Originalism That Defies History
“My remark about foreign sailors referring to themselves in English was said tongue-in-cheek, of course!”
“The Borgesian frame provided by the translator's introduction and an appendix relating the history of the lost books contributes an additional tongue-in-cheek element that completes the novel's masquerade as a feat of "scholarship.”
“Not to mention tongue-in-cheek dialog mocking the superhero genre in general?”
“The answer is in Parkinson's Law, the slightly tongue-in-cheek essays written by Professor C Northcote Parkinson in the 1960s.”
“The tongue-in-cheek inscription read: “Wish You Were Here.””
“She heard his tongue-in-cheek delivery, and it made her laugh.”
“The tongue-in-cheek saying is that there's no scholarship for retirement.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tongue-in-cheek’.
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Public List: Body Metaphors
Phrases that use body parts metaphorically.
neck of the woods, bone of contention, mouth of a river, teeth of the storm, heart of the matter, foot of the bed, eye of the storm, dogleg hole, finger lakes, headwaters, foothills, knik arm and 212 more...
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tongue phrases
how tongue is used
tongue aloe, tongue-and-groove, tongue-baited, tongue-bang, tongue-banger, tongue-bar, tongue-battery, tongue-battle, tongue-bird, tongue-bit, tongue-biting, tongue-bitten and 158 more...
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Cliches
http://www.suspense.net/whitefish/cliche.htm
don't know what y..., when the going ge..., tongue-in-cheek, nip it in the bud, greek to me, stubborn as a mule, keep your eye on ..., up sh*t creek wit..., going to rip you ..., stopped him dead ..., get a grip, be safe not sorry and 1 more...
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phrases
ironic detachment, get one's leg over, run wild, mad as a box of f..., keep your chin up, baker's dozen, fire a shot in anger, have a field day, go over with a fi..., as the crow flies, leap of faith, learn one's lesson and 224 more...
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Sudeep's list
New words I learn.
sang-froid, haggard, gazebo, grotesque, cardinal, labyrinth, pejorative, visage, vignette, insouciant, formidable, prescient and 143 more...
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ginnylev's Words
neuroplasticity, repudiate, scintilla, ruminate, tautology, ombudsman, exigent, filibuster, grace, ambidextrous, amends, disclosure and 623 more...
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Speaking in tongues
Tongue words and phrases.
tongue-tied, tongue-lashing, tongue-twister, tongue-in-cheek, forked tongue, tongue-chain, speaking in tongues, gift of tongues, on the tip of one..., tongue-work, tongue-fence, tongue bone and 72 more...
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jwjarvis http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/tongue-in-cheek.html Nov 19, 2010