in a joke

in a joke开玩笑：While in good humour，our director often said something in a joke to us.心情愉快时，我们主任常常跟我们开些玩笑。

• turn something over in one's head
• absolute accommodation
• damage control
• edit out
• be as good as your word
• ceramic analysis
• abortives
• not any more
• recolonized
• Afro-American
• quartz mining
• pounce paper
• super-Hitlerism
• hetting
• gynecol
• as poor as a church mouse
• posology
• American eagles
• infixations
• three-cornered contest / fight
• Miranda
• subwoofers
• triglyphical
• clypeus
• go for broke
• doubloon
• wait on（或upon）
• get it up
• sheltered accommodation / housing
• houseplants
• verss
• under the seal of confidence
• almoner
• monochromatization
• digital synthesizer
• stagecrafts
• vellication
• off-label
• eliminable
• inadvertently
• dart
• Hercules
• life-giver
• battailous
• anagrams
• sash cords
• biochemorphology
• indeclinable
• maziness
• pearl sago
• the silent treatment
• miniseriess
• blidas
• YAGs
• Beatle boots
• hudson seals
• of all people
• landwards
• core-halo galaxy
• crown colony
• jacket crown
• persian lambs
• erotema
• albertans
• alcotts
• compressible-flow principle
• eugenicists
• surface reaction
• stand out
• counterspy
• Ninus
• elevens
• emphasis
• inflamingly
• pimp stick
• if the worst comes to worst
• tosylations
• bivalents
• at one go
• fishing banks
• put a brave face on something
• prang up
• narcolepsies
• ogle
• without redemption
• handy-andy
• meatus
• butyrophenones
• hot-footed
• fenagling
• clostridial
• status quos
• mayflowers
• adobe flats
• grandiosely
• nailing strip
• shoulder girdle
• minister without portfolio
• teosinte
• as sure as death/nails/fate/one lives