laugh down

laugh down

To dismiss, belittle, or reject someone or something by laughing derisively or treating them or it very casually. A noun or pronoun can be used between "laugh" and "down." There were quite a few doubts within the company about the decision, but the new CEO just laughed it all down. For the most part, people here just laughed down the foreign president and his blustering rhetoric.
See also: down, laugh
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

laugh someone or something down

to cause someone to quit or cause something to end by laughing in ridicule. Her singing career was destroyed when the audience laughed her down as an amateur. The cruel audience laughed down the amateur singer. They laughed down the magic act also.
See also: down, laugh
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • not do (someone or oneself) any favors
  • rescue from
  • rescue from (someone or something)
  • identify with
  • attune to
  • ask back
  • orient
  • orient to
  • orient to (something)
  • involved with
References in periodicals archive
And besides, we share a love of Desperate Housewives and having a laugh down the pub.
If you're the kind of person who scorns the Teletubbies or Mr Blobby's efforts, never mind the work of our own Richie Kavanagh, above, with Aon Focail Eile, this gives you a chance to laugh down your nose at everyone else.
And there's no limit to the radiant blue sky providing a backdrop to the snowy mountain peaks, while the ever-present sun seems to laugh down mountain paradise.
IT seems British men most want to have a laugh down the pub, with cheeky chappies Ant and Dec topping a poll of the best celebrities to have a pint with.
Low-paid workers are constantly skint, worn out and totally dejected, whilst the bone idle dossers just laugh down their noses at us.
He said: "I enjoyed my time down at London (Skolars, when on loan) - it was a good laugh down there.
I'm the main target - he has my laugh down to a tee (or should that be a tee-hee?).
I'M still having such a laugh down here in London with my Cockney friends regarding the collapse of the `Fourth Grace' in the Capital of Culture!
If you have a great joke that always gets a good laugh down the pub, then a group of scientists at Glasgow University want to hear from you.
"I just laugh down the phone and tell them 'It''''s the Candyman!'," he said.
"You could always just ring him up if you'd heard a joke that day and he would just laugh and laugh down the phone with you.
It's not all having a laugh down the pub with your mates, you know.
Given that only five per cent of those polled want their boss to be primarily a "mate" or "a laugh down the pub", Brent and his like are pursuing a misjudged management technique.