barrel of laughs

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barrel of laughs (plural barrels of laughs)

1. (idiomatic, often sarcastic) A great amount of enjoyment or entertainment, or something or someone that provides this.

   We went to a karaoke bar and had a barrel of laughs.

   I gather he's a funeral director. That must be why he's such a barrel of laughs. (sarcastic)

   • 2014, Kathleen George, The Johnstown Girls, page 37:

     As they say, getting older is not a barrel of laughs.

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