no joke

No joke: In February, single copy sales spiked an average 1,116 weekdays and 1,600 on Sundays, an increase Castaneda says can be attributed at least in part to the custody and asylum struggle over the six-year-old Cuban shipwreck survivor.

2000, Brandweek - Volume 41, Issues 18-22, page 140

Well over a hundred urban warriors who weren't afraid to die had a bone to pick with me. No joke.

2011, Dennis Lehane, A Drink Before The War

No Joke! We put together more than 1,000 knock-knock jokes about every subject under the sun, along with some hilarious illustrations!

2018, Brian Boone, The Jokiest Joking Knock-Knock Joke Book Ever Written

No joke, I was making $50 a day after tax and working so many hours that I had neither the time nor energy to even think about making music.

2022, Johnny Ruffo, No Finish Line

But, sir, it is not a farce to the Canadian people; it is no joke to the Canadian tax-payer. If it is either a farce or a joke, they must foot the bill. No , it is no joke to them; it is something else, and something a great deal worse .

1891, Canada. Parliament. House of Commons, Official Reports of the Debates of the House of Commons, page 3743

Incompetence was no joke when ( other ) people got killed by incompetence. It was no joke when the children, growing old enough, really did go away to war; and not much of a joke when soldiers who were little more than children came out to join in that War.

1929, Crascredo, No Joke

In addition, Papa was no doubt influenced by his obsession that life is hard, is meant to be hard, and is no joke at all.

1985, William Tsap En Wong, James Kim Min Wong, No Joke, James, page 434

There was no joke about it whatsoever. That pregnancy was not an easy one.

2011, David P. Simmons, No End of Guilty Creatures, page 77

It was no joke. And yes, I did survive, but I became very ill in November due to all the stress and had to take five days off.

2021, Gordon Farlie, No One Told Me There Would Be Days Like This