joking\ apart

joking\ apart
• joking aside
• joking apart
v. phr. informal
No fooling; without exaggerating: seriously.

Joking aside, although the conditions were not very comfortable, we had a wonderful time.

Joking apart, there must have been over a hundred people in the room.


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