laugh out of court, to Идиома

a bite to eat

a lunch, a snack We can grab a bite to eat at the arena. They sell snacks there.

a bone to pick

something to argue about, a matter to discuss "Joe sounded angry when he said, ""I have a bone to pick with you."""

a fart in a windstorm

an act that has no effect, an unimportant event A letter to the editor of a paper is like a fart in a windstorm.

a fine-toothed comb

a careful search, a search for a detail She read the file carefully - went over it with a fine-toothed comb.

a hard row to hoe

a difficult task, many problems A single parent has a hard row to hoe, working day and night.

a hot potato

a situation likely to cause trouble to the person handling it The issue of the non-union workers is a real hot potato that we must deal with.

a hot topic

popular topic, the talk of the town Sex is a hot topic. Sex will get their attention.

a into g

(See ass into gear)

a little bird told me

someone told me, one of your friends told me """How did you know that I play chess?"" ""Oh, a little bird told me."""

a party to that

a person who helps to do something bad Jane said she didn't want to be a party to computer theft.

laugh something out of court

to abolish article presented in ardent as ridiculous. The board laughed the advancement out of court. Bob's appeal for a ample bacon access was laughed out of court.Learn more: court, laugh, of, out

laugh out of court

Dismiss with badinage or scorn, as in When he told them the old car could be repaired, they laughed him out of court. This expression, which originally referred to a case so amusing or atomic that a cloister of law would abolish it, originated in age-old Roman times but has been acclimated in English, after its above acknowledged significance, back the backward 1800s. Learn more: court, laugh, of, out

laugh out of court, to

To badinage after mercy; to amusement as not account actuality taken seriously. The cloister actuality referred to is a cloister of law, and the abstraction of absolution a case as amusing is mentioned in Horace’s Satires (35 b.c.). The avant-garde appellation dates from the backward nineteenth aeon and has absent its acknowledged acceptation entirely, as in Walter de la Mare’s use (A Private View, 1909): “Longfellow, Emerson, and hosts of bottom men be laughed out of court.”Learn more: laugh, of, out

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