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laugh (someone or something) to scorn

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laugh (someone or something) to scorn

To mock or ridicule someone or something; to subject someone or something to scorn, derision, or contempt. The senator was laughed to scorn for his ignorance of pop culture. They just laughed my idea to scorn during the meeting.
See also: laugh, scorn
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2015 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.

laugh someone or something to scorn

ridicule someone or something.
This is a biblical idiom: see, for example, Job 12:4: ‘I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn’ or Matthew 9:24: ‘He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.’
See also: laugh, scorn, someone, something
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017
See also:
  • laugh someone or something to scorn
  • ride roughshod over, to
  • be in line with (someone or something)
  • (someone or something) promises well
  • accompanied by
  • accompanied by (someone or something)
  • accompany
  • avenge (oneself) against (someone or something)
  • accompany (one) on a/(one's) journey
  • accompany on a journey


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