Joke
Joke noun - Something said or done to cause laughter.
Scheme
Scheme noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
How words are described
| old | old joke | old scheme |
| good | good joke | good scheme |
| long | long joke | long scheme |
| exact | exact joke | exact scheme |
| Other adjectives: elaborate, particular, similar, standard, original, actual, entire, real, big, great, little, black, dark, main, clever, ultimate, new, final, classic, next, last. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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The joke is that while Kais's teachings are very human and reasonable in the scheme of moral relativity, Ardias is completely right in his description of Chaos.
Source: Video Game / Fire Warrior -
The Starscream clones are all based on other jets in previous Transformers series and a sly joke towards the repaint/resell methods of Transformer toys; The original Sycophant's color scheme almost exactly matches that of Starscream in The Unicron Trilogy.
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In Justice League International, Booster Gold and Blue Beetle joke to each other about how Max Lord, their team's sponsor/boss, is going to "put a bullet in my head" for their latest Zany Scheme.
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