tongue-in-cheek• The way I use them is slightly tongue-in-cheek.• It is the trick of the big-stage musical number but applied to circus with finesse and much tongue-in-cheekhumour.• Kate's tongue-in-cheekinterview was given half a page, and the Globe immediately asked her for more articles.• This is not a merely tongue-in-cheekreaction to such arguments as that of Meillassoux.• a tongue-in-cheek rock video