take a joke

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   listen to a joke at one's own expense

   “Can't you take a joke?”

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Questions about take a joke

What does take a joke mean?

take a joke means "listen to a joke at one's own expense".

Is take a joke a common word?

take a joke is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.