mickey
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"Where property developers are just taking the mickey, or just excess profiteering, as we know absolutely goes on... let's challenge that," he said.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026
"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
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
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
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