mickey

Example Sentences

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"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

You take the mickey out of yourself and other people.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2024

England’s all-time leading run-scorer Alastair Cook said his former team have been complacent, while ex-England skipper Michael Vaughan warned them not to "take the mickey out of Test cricket".

From BBC • Sep. 8, 2024

England midfielder Izzy Christiansen, who was at the game, told 5 Live: "If that goal is not taking the mickey, I don't know what is."

From BBC • Jul. 26, 2022

In North America this might be called a mickey mouse program.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.