laugh out of court

English

Verb

laugh out of court (third-person singular simple present laughs out of court, present participle laughing out of court, simple past and past participle laughed out of court)

(idiomatic) To dismiss as silly something presented with genuine conviction or treated seriously.
The claim that his dog wrote the poems was laughed out of court by publishers.

Translations

Translations

Finnish: nauraa pihalle

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.