I'm not being funny (but)

I'm not being funny (but) BrE spokenused when you are serious or do not want to offend someone我不是想开玩笑（但…）:•I'm not being funny, but we haven't got much time.我不开玩笑，我们时间不多了。

• astatic
• more - than someone has had hot dinners
• paneers
• Lombrosian school
• guardhouse lawyer
• dentifrices
• recidivist
• get a laugh
• nilgaus
• triallelic
• be addressed to
• toss sth / sb ↔ out
• monoamine oxidases
• photomicrography
• Peyer's patch
• Trojan
• give one's right arm to have something
• cloud echo
• leucoplasts
• Pax Russo-Americana
• penning gate
• pidgin
• freeway
• squamulate
• All Fools' Day
• territorial waters
• curter
• Saracen
• be/come under fire
• glazing
• displacement
• champignon
• write ... down
• put ... over on
• oligomers
• mean place
• launder screen
• first point of Libra
• transcriptor
• grief
• methylatropine bromide
• scatterometer
• diocesans
• seamless tubing
• enter into the spirit of
• Sabin vaccines
• machan
• measled
• johnny-jump-ups
• breach of faith
• anhidrotic
• self-condemned
• collotypic
• flood dam
• front bench
• let ... alone
• stagger heads
• interjectionalized
• grueling或-elling
• Napa
• keep off one's back
• circle diagram
• pyranoside
• sustainest
• cloky
• ill-fitteds
• tinseltowns
• engrailment
• sharecrops
• flex one's muscles
• metrificated
• keeping
• radicate
• F2
• study up
• cheero
• and what not
• baubles
• trimonthly
• Foshay's test
• voodooed
• iodates
• arisings
• in the news
• jims
• downgrader
• radials
• sweet almond oil
• double-bounce calibration
• Evangeline
• this great等 round
• patrologies
• lesser retaliation
• connived
• domino
• limewoods
• Fula
• im-ing
• single-name paper
• obtuse angle