I'm not being funny, but -

I'm not being funny, but - informal used before a statement or suggestion to point out that it is serious, however facetious or strange it may seem 〈非正式〉［用于陈述或建议前, 表示尽管该陈述或建议可能看似俏皮或奇怪但却是当真的］我不是在开玩笑, 但——： I'm not being funny but I haven't got all day. 我不是开玩笑, 但我没有整天的时间。

• see fit to do something
• crinoid
• sign test
• take note
• acorn squash
• Craig
• hinge region
• it fell off the back of a lorry
• Mingus, Charles
• confidence man
• fender benders
• argentite
• audio device
• be, get, keep, etc. in touch (with sb)
• filmratings
• solemnizations
• buffering action
• cylindrical wave
• cold-shoulder
• mica
• skyway
• preverbal
• stipos
• bathesthesia
• wemysses
• gramophile
• yodle
• mid channel
• roiler
• QATS
• run with
• delegitimised
• color excess
• placer dredger
• warn
• motorcar
• Hepialoidea
• housing starts
• chokeys
• kaftan
• supralateral tangent arcs
• acerbate
• let the whole show down
• tungar tube
• ovicidal
• Dunstan, Saint
• amboceptor unit
• positive about
• grid capacitor
• road rollers
• celestial meridian
• calcium cyanamide
• muscle-flexing
• giaour
• reaganauts
• outstares
• salugi
• follow sth↔up
• soil ecology
• decumbently
• annihilability
• zanla
• as right as nails
• dry down
• thermograph correction card
• ectotropic
• doze away
• second city
• sediment trap
• graspings
• interlocking
• billycocks
• hack writer
• be all dolled up and nowhere to go
• extrications
• hovellers
• alsike clover
• forget yourself
• anadiplosis
• bow to sb / sth
• tripling
• cut a deal
• snivelly
• insurgence
• 1-butene
• horsier
• exheredations
• toilet tables
• drying oil
• as is most likely
• air adjustment
• chlorophyll a
• serranid
• given under my hand and seal
• dysfluency
• electric glow
• grex
• ionic charges
• reopen old wounds
• dephosphorylations