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Q: Could you tell me some suitable idioms to express this situation: A guy told you a joke, but it's not funny at all. In Japanese, we say 'He slipped' or 'His joke was so cold that the air got frozen,' for that situation. Are there any similar phrases in English?.
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The phrase lame joke is broadly used to describe (idiomatic) An attempt at humor which is perceived to have been used previously to the point of being cliche, or was never funny to begin with. You could use 'His joke was lame', 'His joke was not even funny' or 'His joke was corny.' [Wiktionary, Merriam-Webster Learner's Dicitionary]