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tongue-in-cheek
tongue-in-cheek {adj. phr.}
В шутливой или неискренней манере.
When the faculty complained about the poor salary increments, the university's president said that he was not a psychiatrist, thus making an inappropriate tongue-in-cheek remark.
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Источник: A Dictionary of American Idioms