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make fun of
Idioms and Phrases
Also, poke fun at ; make sport of . Mock, ridicule, as in The girls made fun of Mary's shoes , or They poked fun at Willie's haircut , or I wish you wouldn't make sport of the new boy . The first term dates from the early 1700s, the second from the mid-1800s, and the third from the early 1500s.Example Sentences
Howard even suggested movies of his they could make fun of in the script.
“Obviously, I’m going to make a punchline to make fun of the guy who robbed the bodega,†the host replied.
It has always been popular, and continues to be popular, to make fun of lawyers, to deride lawyers, to denigrate lawyers, and I get that we deserve a lot of what we get.
If you’re a conservative, but you’re not a white supremacist, it shouldn’t bother you to hear me make fun of white supremacy, and so that’s kind of how I try to think about a lot of it.
It's important to note briefly that it is not a crime to refuse to buy a Tesla, throw the bird at people who drive Teslas, make fun of Tesla drivers online, or hurriedly sell off your Tesla at half its previous market value after being called a "Nazi" in a parking lot.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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