[joking aside] или [joking apart] {v. phr.}, {informal}
= [кроме шуток], [(отставив) шутки в сторону]
Без дураков, без преувеличения: серьезно.
* /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./
Словари
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