verb
listen to a joke at one's own expense
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Can't you take a joke?
• Hypernyms:
↑digest, ↑endure, ↑stick out, ↑stomach, ↑bear, ↑stand, ↑tolerate, ↑support, ↑brook, ↑abide, ↑suffer, ↑put up
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s
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phrasal : to endure a joke at one's own expense
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take a ˈjoke idiom
to be able to laugh at a joke against yourself
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The trouble with her is she can't take a joke.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.