funny thing

collocation in English

meaningsoffunnyandthing

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funny
adjective
uk
/ˈfʌn.i/us
/ˈfʌn.i/
humorous; ...
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thing
noun
uk
/θɪŋ/us
/θɪŋ/
used to refer in an approximate way to an object or to avoid ...
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(Definition offunnyandthingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffunny thing

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Afunnythinghappened to us on the way to the latent entities.
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That was thefunnythingabout it.
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It's afunnything, humour, 185-92.
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Afunnythinghappens when cucumbers meet food processing: they emerge with different names in different dialects.
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I agree with him, but then logic is such afunnything.
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It is afunnythinghow fashions change.
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But that was not the onlyfunnything.
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It is afunnythinghow so often births take place at inconvenient hours of night.
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Her colleagues seem to take this strike as an extraordinarilyfunnything.
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That is why, and it is not afunnything, either.
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Noise is afunnythingand it has peculiar side effects.
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It is afunnythingthat the panel doctors' opinion seems to be absolutely wiped out.
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It is afunnythingalso that often they do not seem exciting at the time.
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Thefunnythingabout the mineral situation was that no local authority asked for the subsidy.
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Yes, but there is afunnythingabout some of us.
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It is afunnythinghow council rents have been going up all over the country.
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Why is it afunnything?
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Dynamite is afunnythingto play with.
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I think it will be true to say that afunnythinghappened to that supplementary, too.
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