Sentence examples of "шутками" in Russian with translation "jest"

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В шутке сказано много правды. There's many a true word spoken in jest.
В каждой шутке есть доля правды. Many a true word is spoken in jest.
Простите, я всё обращаю в шутку. Forgive me, I am for ever in jest.
Вы говорите это в шутку или всерьёз? Are you in jest or in earnest?
Неслучайно в спонсируемых государством рекламных объявлениях воспроизводится любимая шутка царя Александра III, правившего страной в XIX веке — но на этот раз уже не в качестве анекдота. Not for nothing do state-sponsored advertisements replay a joke favored by Tsar Alexander III in the late 19th century – but no longer in jest.
Могу я спросить, когда вы рассказывали нам о часах, что вас гипнотизировали, и что ваш отец говорил что ему удавалось загипнотизировать вас ребенка, это было шуткой? Might I ask - when you told us about the watch, you know, the hypnotism and your father saying that as a child he could put you under his spell, that was all jest?
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