If you say something tongue in cheek, you intend it to be understood as a joke, although you might appear to be serious.
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The Bold and the Beautiful
Katherine Kelly Lang (Brooke Logan) used the phrase “Tongue in cheek” while talking to Jack Wagner(Dominick Payne Marone) in the popular TV show [...]
The phrase “overstay/outstay your welcome” means to stay in a place longer than someone wants you to stay .
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The Bold and the Beautiful
Hunter Tylo(Dr. Taylor Hayes Forrester) used the phrase “overstay your welcome” while talking to Katherine Kelly Lang(Brooke Logan) in the popular TV show “The Bold and the [...]
The phrase “be along for the ride” means to join in an activity without playing an important part in it.
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Desperate Housewives
Doug Savant (Tom Scavo) used the phrase “be along for the ride” while talking to Felicity Huffman (Lynette Scavo) in the second season, episode 16(There Is No Other Way) of the [...]
A wild-goose chase refers to a situation where you waste time looking for something that you are not going to find, either because that thing does not exist or because you have been given wrong information about it.
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The Bold and the Beautiful
Katherine Kelly Lang (Brooke Logan) used [...]