tongue in cheek, with

It's tongue in cheek with my coach Joe Gallagher.

Three months later the paper raised him $10, and he married his high-school girl friend, Sylvia, who rarely accompanies him on his rounds, but keeps him in line with such advice as: "Don't confuse tongue in cheek with foot in mouth."

"One can envisage a transportation system without timetables," says Cooper, tongue in cheek, "with the world's cities linked by tunnels, the departure time universally on the hour, and the arrival time 42.2 minutes later."