smirk at (someone or something)
smirk at (someone or something)
1. Literally, to smile at someone or something in a smug, scornful, or condescending manner. Sarah just smirked at me when I invited her to my party. My dad sat on the porch smirking at me as I made a hash of repairing the engine by myself.
2. By extension, to regard someone or something with smugness, scorn, condescension, etc. I feel like the rest of the world smirks at us because of our outdated, backwards laws. I used to smirk at the idea of working in a cubicle for eight hours a day, but once I had kids and needed steady income, it stopped sounding so unappealing.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
smirk at someone or something
to smile in a smug or sneering way at someone or something. Why are you smirking at me like that? Jane looked at the report and smirked at it.
See also: smirk
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- smirk
- smirk at
- sneer
- sneer at
- sneer at (someone or something)
- mansplain
- set (one) down as (something)
- set down
- set down as
- bridle