noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gallows humour (= jokes, funny stories etc which make very unpleasant or dangerous things seem funny )
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It was the kind of gallows humor that medical students love.
gallows humour
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
humour
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Emotional but effective and with some memorable flashes of gallows humour .
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But within it there is evidence of Kane s gallows humour .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another of the outcropping, another of a gallows fixed to the outcropping.
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As uplifting as a gallows , maybe, but a rewarding experiment in instrumentation none the less.
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Dinah rides with Hetty in the cart proceeding to the gallows along streets lined with people.
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Hooper's career continued until 1735 but thereafter no mention of him occurs in the gallows records.
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Men on their way to the gallows ?
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Next a policeman puppet arrived carrying a gallows .
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The arrangement was later modified, and gallows were erected outside, in the hanging corner.
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The next sketch was one of a gallows .