barrel of laughs
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Noun
editbarrel of laughs (plural barrels of laughs)
- (idiomatic, often sarcastic) A great amount of enjoyment or entertainment, or something or someone that provides this.
- We went to a karaoke bar and had a barrel of laughs.
- I gather he's a funeral director. That must be why he's such a barrel of laughs. (sarcastic)
- 2014, Kathleen George, The Johnstown Girls, page 37:
- As they say, getting older is not a barrel of laughs.
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