jest at (someone or something)
jest at (someone or something)
To make mocking, teasing, or jeering remarks about or at the expense of someone or something. Everyone had been jesting at the dire future of the company, never expecting it to actually go under. The members of the royal court jested at the prisoner as he pleaded for his life before the king.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
jest at someone or something
to make fun of someone or something. Please don't jest at my cousin. Is someone jesting at my hairdo?
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- jest at
- the butt of the joke
- taunt (one) into (doing something)
- taunt into
- laugh oneself out of
- laugh out of
- jest with
- jest with (one)
- carry too far
- carry/take something too, etc. far