Guess the English Idiom

Question

After posting in today's phrasal verb thread I found myself writing the English idiom 'tongue in cheek' and it occurred to me that if you had never heard that idiom before it might be a bit tricky to work out what it means. In fact you could end up with some rather humorous ideas.

so .... I was thinking that it might be fun for non-native English speakers (who haven't heard of this idiom before) to post what they think it might mean.

Please don't investigate on the net or look it up as this would defeat the purpose and spoil the fun.

Idiom - tongue in cheek

What do you think it might mean?

If you have a good idea or think you may have heard it before perhaps let others try first

where oh where have the smiley's gone :( - Kiwi-Girl, Jul 9, 2012

Oh where, or where can they be? - rac1, Jul 9, 2012

Answer 1

delete. si querés (lol)

jajaja.... ahora lo funciona. - ruiseñor, Jul 10, 2012

Ok... publicaré lo que escribí aquí. - ruiseñor, Jul 10, 2012

No puedo mandar mensajes privados debido a que no tengo una cantidad suficiente de puntos. Pero ¡Sí! He publicado este comentario para que yo pueda adquirir suficientes puntos para responder a todos. - ruiseñor, Jul 10, 2012

Pues, no sé lo que se usa en español para expresar "tongue-and-cheek," pero quizá uno podría decir "humor irónico" (muy literal). De todos modos ¡estoy ansioso por ver la respuesta! - ruiseñor, Jul 10, 2012

yay - aquí tiene tus primeros puntos :) Gracias por participar - creo que has dado una gran pista para los demas :) - Kiwi-Girl, Jul 10, 2012

Gracias - ruiseñor, Jul 10, 2012

Answer 2

a joke, something which is not supposed to be taken seriously!

quite right :) - Kiwi-Girl, Jul 11, 2012

Answer 3

The meaning if anyone wondered is - not to be taken seriously, said in fun, as a joke etc.

Answer 4

Ella tiene huevo del ave en la boca , ella es contrabandista . Disimula, disimula ,chica .

She has a birds egg in her mouth , she is a smuggler. Stay cool stay cool girly.

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She may be related to that other " budgy smuggler , Tony Abbot " aye. - ray76, Jul 10, 2012

ayayay - we should have that as the next 'guess the idiom' theme lol - Kiwi-Girl, Jul 10, 2012