Idiom
bad joke
Meaning
A situation that is badly planned, or illogical.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The new office schedule is a bad joke.”
“After waiting three hours for a bus that never arrived, he realized the entire transit system was a bad joke.”
“The committee's proposal to solve the housing crisis with such limited funding was widely considered a bad joke by the experts involved.”
Examples
simple
“The new office schedule is a bad joke.”
contextual
“After waiting three hours for a bus that never arrived, he realized the entire transit system was a bad joke.”
complex
“The committee's proposal to solve the housing crisis with such limited funding was widely considered a bad joke by the experts involved.”
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