Idiom
straight-face test
Meaning
A tongue-in-cheek test of the merits of an argument which asks whether it can be made with a straight face (without laughing).
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“His excuse fails the straight-face test.”
“The politician tried to explain the policy, but it clearly failed the straight-face test.”
“The proposal was so absurd that it could not possibly pass the straight-face test when presented to the board of directors.”
Examples
simple
“His excuse fails the straight-face test.”
contextual
“The politician tried to explain the policy, but it clearly failed the straight-face test.”
complex
“The proposal was so absurd that it could not possibly pass the straight-face test when presented to the board of directors.”
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