to poke
41poke your nose in/into — see ↑nose, 1 • • • Main Entry: ↑poke …
42poke fun at somebody — poke ˈfun at sb/sth idiom to say unkind things about sb/sth in order to make other people laugh at them Syn: ↑ridicule • Her novels poke fun at the upper class. • She s always poking fun at herself. Main entry: ↑ …
43poke fun at something — poke ˈfun at sb/sth idiom to say unkind things about sb/sth in order to make other people laugh at them Syn: ↑ridicule • Her novels poke fun at the upper class. • She s always poking fun at herself. Main entry: ↑ …
44poke — index delve, jostle (bump into), loiter Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
45poke fun at — index jape, mock (deride) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
46poke into — index frisk, probe Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
47poke mullock at Austral./NZ — informal ridicule. → mullock …
48poke (your) nose into (something) — to try to discover things that do not involve you. The government has no business poking its nose into people s personal lives …
49poke (your) nose into (something) — poke/stick (your) nose into (something) informal to show too much interest in a situation that does not involve you. That ll teach him to go poking his nose into other people s business! …
50poke around — poke about we were just poking around some antique shops Syn: search, hunt, rummage (around), forage, grub, root about/around, scavenge, nose around, ferret (about/around); sift through, rifle through, scour, comb, probe …