mickey
Example Sentences
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I'm very tolerant, but I'm not tolerant of people who I believe are coming here to take the mickey.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2025
"Maybe it's not a bad lesson to learn that you've got to have the mickey taken out of you occasionally," he says.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2025
At the London airport, an official asked him, "Are you taking the mickey out of our royalty?"
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2023
We got through the last-16 tie with Cameroon and I remember everyone celebrating and taking the mickey out of manager Phil Neville's haircut.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2022
In North America this might be called a mickey mouse program.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele
