joking aside

[joking aside] or [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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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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