Tongue in cheek means that something is not serious.

Tongue in cheek 的意思某事不认真的。

Tongue in cheek? Perhaps. Yet, for all his playfulness, Mr Tesson is in earnest.

华而不实？或许吧。但在他所有嬉言之下却有着一颗虔诚的心。

Just tongue in cheek. It's not that serious.

信口拈的 没什么特别的意思。

And tongue in cheek, but always just in the sort of most loose and cool like sort of smart, classy way.

同时，总以一种最轻松、最酷的方式，一种聪明、优雅的方式出自己的设。

Did you say " Tongue in cheek" ?

你“玩笑” 吗？

But I mean, that was, there's a tongue in cheek for sure.

但我的意思，那确实带点儿调侃的意味。

I'm always sort of thinking a little bit tongue in cheek on Twitter.

我总在 Twitter 上玩笑地思考。

But I meant it as kind of a tongue in cheek.

但我的意思有点玩笑。

So it's kind of a tongue in cheek opening.

所以这一个略带讽刺意味的场白。

There's always like a sense of irony, kind of a tongue in cheek sort of approach to a lot of what I do.

我做的很多事情都充满了讽刺意味，带着一种荒诞、半玩笑的感觉。

They love to boast, though often with tongue in cheek.

他们喜欢自吹自擂，虽然往往言不由衷。

Again they're being a little tongue in cheek and a little funny here.

他们又在玩笑, 有点滑稽。

But normally, the people that write these kinds of things are, you know, tongue in cheek somewhat.

但通常，撰写这类内容的人，你知道的，多少带点儿调侃的意味。

Charlene: I said that tongue in cheek.

查琳：我半玩笑地的。

So like, you know, you're, you're, you're doing a little tongue in cheek there, but that is serious.

所以，你知道的，你在玩笑，但那确实认真的。

And this is, I say this a bit tongue in cheek, but it's sort of a real example.

而这，我稍微带点幽默地，其实一个真实例子。

In a sort of tongue in cheek way or not like a sort of just genuinely or genuinely forward?

以一种玩笑的方式还真的就真心的或直接的？

" She made a tongue in cheek comment about wanting to go swimming" – she wasn't serious, she was joking.

“她半玩笑地想去做游泳”——她不认真的，她在玩笑。

So, someone says to you, " He said it tongue in cheek" , they're saying don't worry, he was just joking.

所以，有人对你， “他玩笑的” ，他们别担心，他只在玩笑。

Yet if this book was slightly tongue in cheek, it was still haunted by Orwell's pet themes of poverty and the dehumanising power of social systems.

然而，即使这本书略带讽刺，它仍然被奥威尔所钟爱的贫困和社会制度的非人性化的力量的主题所困扰。