laugh out of court
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laugh out of court (third-person singular simple present laughs out of court, present participle laughing out of court, simple past and past participle laughed out of court)
- (idiomatic) To dismiss as silly something presented with genuine conviction or treated seriously.
- The claim that his dog wrote the poems was laughed out of court by publishers.
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