- laugh someone/something out of court
- dismiss with contempt as being obviously ridiculous
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
laugh someone/something out of court
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laugh something out of court — laugh someone/something out of court phrase if you laugh someone or something out of court, you show them that you think their ideas or suggestions are very silly Anyone who made claims like that these days would be laughed out of court.… … Useful english dictionary
laugh someone/thing out of court — dismiss someone or something with contempt as being obviously ridiculous. → laugh … English new terms dictionary
laugh someone out of court — see under ↑laugh • • • Main Entry: ↑court laugh someone out of court To prevent someone getting a hearing by ridicule • • • Main Entry: ↑laugh * * * laugh someone/something out of court phrase if you laugh someone or something out of court, you… … Useful english dictionary
laugh 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… … New idioms dictionary
laugh 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… … New idioms dictionary
laugh 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… … New idioms dictionary
laugh — I UK [lɑːf] / US [læf] verb [intransitive] Word forms laugh : present tense I/you/we/they laugh he/she/it laughs present participle laughing past tense laughed past participle laughed *** Other ways of saying laugh: giggle to laugh in a nervous… … English dictionary
laugh — verb 1》 make the sounds and movements that express lively amusement and sometimes also derision. ↘(laugh at) ridicule; scorn. 2》 (laugh something off) dismiss something by treating it in a light hearted way. 3》 (be laughing) informal be in a… … English new terms dictionary
laugh — laugh1 W2S2 [la:f US læf] v [: Old English; Origin: hliehhan] 1.) to make sounds with your voice, usually while you are smiling, because you think something is funny ▪ Maria looked at him and laughed. laugh at/about ▪ I didn t know what I was… … Dictionary of contemporary English
laugh — 1 verb 1 MAKE SOUND (I) to make the sounds and movements of the face that people make when they think something is funny: Jonathan kept pulling funny faces at me, and I couldn t stop laughing. (+ at/about): I couldn t understand why they were all … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
