to make fun
111make merry — have fun, laugh and celebrate We decided to go to a nice restaurant and make merry for the evening …
112make a night of it — informal to stay out late into the night having fun I know a jazz club we can go to, if you want to make a night of it …
113make\ merry — v. phr. literary To have fun, laugh, and be happy, In Aesop s fable the grasshopper made merry while the ant worked and saved up food. In the Bible story a rich man ate and drank and made merry …
114make a night of it — have fun until late at night, stay out and entertain oneself until the late hours …
115make merry — I m afraid we may have made merry a bit too long last night Syn: have fun, have a good time, enjoy oneself, have a party, celebrate, carouse, feast, ‘eat, drink, and be merry, ’ revel, roister; informal party, have a ball …
116poke fun at — See: MAKE FUN OF …
117poke fun at — See: MAKE FUN OF …
118poke fun at — tease, make fun of …
119poke fun at — MOCK, make fun of, ridicule, laugh at, jeer at, sneer at, deride, scorn, scoff at, pillory, lampoon, tease, taunt, rag, chaff, jibe at; informal send up, take the mickey out of, kid, rib; Brit. informal wind up; N. Amer. informal goof on, rag on; …
120poke fun — verb subject to laughter or ridicule (Freq. 1) The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday • Syn: ↑ridicule, ↑roast, ↑ …