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Don't be silly!

Even the cleverest students can make silly mistakes.

Ikeda made several silly mistakes, and so he was told off by the department head.

The meeting was going off without a hitch until he threw a wet blanket on it by making silly remarks.

Bob thinks it is a silly idea to call his mother who is so far away, to spend so much, and to say so little.

It may never be known how we silly Anglophones got "baloney" out of "bologna."

His parents' view was that he was wasting his earnings on a silly girl.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

If my kid couldn't speak Shanghainese, I’d slap him silly. the man said.

This may be a silly question, but which is stronger - a tiger or a lion?

Sentences bring context to the words. Sentences have personalities. They can be funny, smart, silly, insightful, touching, hurtful.

What a silly question! That was a silly thing to do, wasn’t it? Don’t be silly – it’s only a spider. She makes a fuss about such silly little (= unimportant) things.

It is a silly practice for non-Christians to send chocolates on St. Valentine's Day.

All that's left for me is to drink myself silly with vodka and to get lost in sleep.

It's so funny!

John is funny. - Funny strange or funny ha-ha?

It’s funny how you remember the words of songs, even ones you don’t really like.

It's funny how German can take a verb, cut it in half, and spread it over a five-clause sentence.

Sentences bring context to the words. Sentences have personalities. They can be funny, smart, silly, insightful, touching, hurtful.

It was a pleasure to spend the evening with a smart, funny and beautiful girl like you.

Dying is nothing. So start with living, it's less funny and it lasts longer.

She said, "It's not funny! How would you like it if someone did that to you - what would you do?"

Whether we find a joke funny or not largely depends on where we have been brought up.

Funny, said the old woman as she granted his wish and disappeared forever. "That was your first wish."

Germans have no sense of humor? I don't find that funny.

The joke about the chicken crossing the road to get to the other side is an example of "anti-humor": meant to be funny because, on the surface, it is not.

People cling on to life more than anything - a funny idea, given all the beautiful things that exist in the world.

On the way out I said to my waitress, "Be careful, Sue. There's something funny about the glasses you gave me - they're filled in on the top, and there's a hole on the bottom!"

The brave sentry thinks it's funny that most Spanish 3rd-person-sentences have six possible ways of being translated to German.