Judges seem to relish what has become, more or less, an inside joke among colleagues.

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The deniability at the start of that last sentence is an inside joke.

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It was a sign of the times that nobody knew whether EBE was an inside joke or was actually serious.

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The refinement and beauty of the Cleopatra becomes a foil for the swiftly drawn, almost grotesque head on its verso perhaps an allegory of contrasts or an inside joke.

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Inside No 10 they joke that the annual scare story about scrapping the Red Arrows or the Trooping of the Colour will surely follow soon.

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Many Ukrainians, especially politicians who some joke have more sins than most, step inside ice holes - cut in the shape of a cross - to honour the baptism of Jesus Christ in the Jordan River.

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If true, past history hints that Bernanke, increasingly a joke outside the Fed, is losing his grip on the inside on the way to him stepping down.

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Inside the NFL's Manhattan offices, the USFL was greeted by commissioner Pete Rozelle as something of a joke.

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