David's terrible joke about dividing the family down the middle has turned out to be a prosaic and obvious prediction.

Over the years, the quality of the baked goods went from tasty to terrible joke.

It would serve you right for all those terrible jokes.

"It was like somebody was playing a terrible joke," he said.

"You must have been telling one of your terrible jokes again," said BusyBody.

Such a voice could only be a joke, a final terrible joke.

Always saying how rich he is and making the most terrible jokes.

She inched towards him, half frightened that he was playing some terrible joke.

The whole enterprise was a terrible joke, misguided, utterly stupid.

That and a taste for terrible jokes, laboriously worked on.