laugh at someone

  • 1laugh at someone — laugh at (someone) to ridicule someone. A lot of kids laughed at me because of the way I dressed, but it never bothered me …

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  • 2laugh in someone's face — To scorn or mock a person openly • • • Main Entry: ↑laugh * * * show open contempt for someone by laughing rudely at them in their presence figurative vandals and muggers who laugh in the face of the law * * * laugh in someone s face : to laugh… …

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  • 3laugh in someone's face — laugh in (someone s) face to show someone that you do not respect them and do not think their ideas are important. He asked them to put out their cigarettes but they just laughed in his face …

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  • 4laugh up your sleeve — If you laugh up your sleeve, you laugh at someone secretly …

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  • 5laugh someone out of court — laugh (something/someone) out of court to refuse to think seriously about an idea, belief or a possibility. At the meeting, her proposal was laughed out of court. (usually passive) Anyone who had made such a ludicrous suggestion would have been… …

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  • 6laugh at — (someone) to ridicule someone. A lot of kids laughed at me because of the way I dressed, but it never bothered me …

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  • 7laugh in face — laugh in (someone s) face to show someone that you do not respect them and do not think their ideas are important. He asked them to put out their cigarettes but they just laughed in his face …

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  • 8laugh something out of court — laugh (something/someone) out of court to refuse to think seriously about an idea, belief or a possibility. At the meeting, her proposal was laughed out of court. (usually passive) Anyone who had made such a ludicrous suggestion would have been… …

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  • 9laugh out of court — laugh (something/someone) out of court to refuse to think seriously about an idea, belief or a possibility. At the meeting, her proposal was laughed out of court. (usually passive) Anyone who had made such a ludicrous suggestion would have been… …

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  • 10laugh — laugh1 [ læf ] verb intransitive *** 1. ) to make the noise with your voice that shows you think something is funny: We talked and laughed late into the night. laugh at: The audience didn t laugh at his jokes. laugh about: They were still… …

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