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Take a joke

verb

Listen to a joke at one's own expense.

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"Take a joke" Quotes from Famous Books

... suh, she ain't got no idee o' fun—she won't take a joke nohow. The other night I went home, an' I been takin' a little jes' to waam ma heart—das all, jes to waam ma heart—an' I got to de fence, an' tried to climb it. I got on de top, an' thar I stays; I couldn't git one way or t'other. Then a gem'en comes ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) • Various

... loudly as the rest. She had been pretty thoroughly spoiled, but her association with the other girls in the Camp Fire had taught her to take a joke when it was aimed at her, unlike most people who are fond of making jokes at the expense of others, and of teasing them. She recognized that she had fairly invited ...

— The Camp Fire Girls on the March - Bessie King's Test of Friendship • Jane L. Stewart

... their friendly persecutors of the evening before good-naturedly at breakfast. It was easy for Frank to see that Ritchie and his associates were ready to accept them as gritty comrades who could take a joke ...

— The Boys of Bellwood School • Frank V. Webster

... take a joke, although not much given to making one. He smiled blandly over the edge of ...

— The Settler and the Savage • R.M. Ballantyne

... little water won't hurt 'em. I've been soaked myself more than once. If they can't take a joke let 'em go," and Tom continued to stalk on until he came to a flat rock, when he suddenly sat down to rest, at the same time putting both hands ...

— The Rover Boys in Alaska - or Lost in the Fields of Ice • Arthur M. Winfield