Tongue-in-cheek
Imagine you're playing a game with your friends, and you're pretending to be a funny animal, like a talking monkey. Now, let's say you make a joke and say, "I can eat a whole banana in one bite, even though I'm a tiny monkey!" Everyone knows that monkeys can't really talk or eat bananas that quickly, but you say it to make your friends giggle. That's what it means to be "tongue in cheek." It's like telling a silly joke and not being serious, but everyone knows it's just for fun and to make people laugh.
์น๊ตฌ๋ค๊ณผ ๊ฒ์์ ํ๊ณ ์๊ณ ๋งํ๋ ์์ญ์ด์ฒ๋ผ ์ฌ๋ฏธ์๋ ๋๋ฌผ์ธ ์ฒํ๋ค๊ณ ์์ํด ๋ณด์ธ์. ์, ๋น์ ์ด ๋๋ด์ ํ๊ณ "๋๋ ์์ ์์ญ์ด์ธ๋ฐ๋ ํ ์ ์ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ฅผ ํต์งธ๋ก ๋จน์ ์ ์์ด!"๋ผ๊ณ ๋งํ๋ค๊ณ ํฉ์๋ค. ์์ญ์ด๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋งํ๊ฑฐ๋ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ฅผ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋จน์ ์ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ชจ๋๊ฐ ์๊ณ ์์ง๋ง, ๋น์ ์ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์ ์๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค๊ธฐ ์ํด ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ๋งํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ด "๋บจ์ ํ"๋ผ๋ ์๋ฏธ์ ๋๋ค. ์ง์งํ์ง ์๊ณ ์ฐ์ค๊ฝ์ค๋ฌ์ด ๋๋ด์ ํ๋ ๊ฒ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ด ๋จ์ง ์ฌ๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ์ํ ๊ฒ์ด๊ณ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ์ํ ๊ฒ์์ ๋ชจ๋๊ฐ ์๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.