jest about (someone or something)
jest about (someone or something)
To make joking, witty, or amusing remarks about or at the expense of someone or something. If people could only hear the way those snobbish politicians jested about the economic crisis at the gala event. There would be a revolution, I tell you! Several employees were jesting about the new manager in the break room.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
jest about someone or something
to make jokes about someone or something. There is no need to jest about Lady Bracknell. I wish you would not jest about that.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- jest about
- look down on
- look down on (someone or something)
- look down upon (someone or something)
- aside
- there's a grain of truth in every joke
- snot-nosed
- apart
- GBG
- down nose