I asked him right off, trying to make his unexpected call into a joke.

"We try to turn everything into a joke," he added.

The wait for the elevator was starting to turn into a joke.

That you weren't going to let them turn this into a joke.

I wanted her to become my wife, but she turned it into a joke.

A few days later it had turned into a joke between them, typical ugly stuff.

At a loss, he turned the revelation into a joke.

"By the time they returned the next night, it had turned into a joke."

"So much for getting that out of the way," she said, trying to make it into a joke.

"It turned into a joke with my friends," she said.