Tongue in cheek means that something is not serious.

Tongue in cheek 的意思某事真的。

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

华而实？或许吧。但在他所有嬉言之下却有颗虔诚的心。

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

信口拈来的 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，总以最轻松、最酷的方式，聪明、优雅的方式来表达出自己的设。

Did you say " Tongue in cheek" ?

你说“开玩笑” 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 上开玩笑地思考。

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

但我的意思有点开玩笑。

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

所以这个略带讽刺意味的开场白。

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，带荒诞、半开玩笑的感觉。

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

他们喜欢自吹自擂，虽然往往言由衷。

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

他们又在开玩笑, 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：我半开玩笑地说的。

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，你在开玩笑，但那确实真的。

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

而这，我稍微带点幽默地说，其实个真实例子。

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

以开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.

“她半开玩笑地说想去做游泳”——她真的，她在开玩笑。

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

所以，有人对你说， “他开玩笑说的” ，他们说别担心，他只在开玩笑。

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。