Idiom
I'm not being funny
Meaning
Used as a softening preface to a statement that might be taken as offensive or malicious.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I'm not being funny, but your shirt is inside out.”
“I'm not being funny, but I think we need to be more honest about why this project is failing.”
“I'm not being funny, but if we continue to ignore these structural flaws, the entire foundation of our argument will inevitably collapse.”
Examples
simple
“I'm not being funny, but your shirt is inside out.”
contextual
“I'm not being funny, but I think we need to be more honest about why this project is failing.”
complex
“I'm not being funny, but if we continue to ignore these structural flaws, the entire foundation of our argument will inevitably collapse.”
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