Idiom
laugh out of court
Meaning
To dismiss as silly something presented with genuine conviction or treated seriously.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The board laughed his ridiculous idea out of court.”
“When the inventor presented his plan for a flying car, the investors laughed him out of court.”
“The committee dismissed the proposal as entirely impractical and effectively laughed the entire project out of court before the presentation even concluded.”
Examples
simple
“The board laughed his ridiculous idea out of court.”
contextual
“When the inventor presented his plan for a flying car, the investors laughed him out of court.”
complex
“The committee dismissed the proposal as entirely impractical and effectively laughed the entire project out of court before the presentation even concluded.”
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