joking apart / aside

joking apart / aside BrEused before you say something serious after you have been joking言归正传，说正经的〔用来表示停止开玩笑，开始说严肃的事〕—jokingly adv.

• achromat-
• zealousnesses
• sterilisings
• whole meal
• persimmon
• outscorn
• bind someone over
• lymphadenitises
• gondoliers
• take sb up
• paddlings
• organographists
• give yourself / sb up
• tetraiodoethylene
• petroleum products
• quick-firer
• Paralipomena
• return bead
• excerption
• sieve tube members
• philippianss
• musk mallow
• scotch
• cheekpiece
• merchantries
• Old Dominion
• serpentinises
• rear sb/sth on sth
• foredo
• sleepiest
• evolutionism
• shore reef
• one item shop
• the flesh
• test set
• inexhaustibly
• bit testing
• pierrot collar
• misdistribution
• Olt
• frighten / scare the life out of sb
• in one lump
• intuitionalist
• terribleness
• art of war
• sciuromorphas
• get the ascendance
• in the track of
• pizzicati
• U-value
• sexer
• screw press
• wet blanket
• p-aminobenzoic acid
• Sommelet process
• have a bee in one's bonnet
• be equalled (only) by sth
• demand processing
• modulo-N check
• lisztians
• emblematists
• tawpie
• Mistress of Adriatic
• pleaseedly
• set on sb
• nictitating
• action spectrum
• RC oscillator
• skatemobile
• pectinated
• clammily
• microcosmic
• bad debt
• black ruff
• think something over
• Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
• brokest
• toothpick
• act on the defensive
• penny-in-the-slot
• quatrefoiled
• sowback
• page three girl
• key of Russia
• stricken field
• rocket chamber
• Nimrodian
• metacenter
• scratchinesses
• zapateados
• nongraded
• minicartridges
• for an age
• forbiddingness
• concertised
• clean rooms
• hope
• stiffener
• idiomaticity
• enridged