make fun of

Idioms  

1. Also, poke fun at; make sport of. Mock, ridicule, as in The girls made fun of Mary's shoes, or They poked fun at Willie's haircut, or I wish you wouldn't make sport of the new boy. The first term dates from the early 1700s, the second from the mid-1800s, and the third from the early 1500s.

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make fun of

“How do we make fun of it in an avant-garde, punk, radical way? How do we poke holes at it?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

The Sun follows with the same headline, adding that Davis has asked her friends and family "to make fun of me as much as possible".

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

She makes videos “questioning” the existence of dinosaurs and then lashes out at the people who inevitably make fun of her for this.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

LONDON—Lucy Kloc, a Floridian living in the U.K., used to make fun of her British boyfriend for complaining about the summer heat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

You even let them make fun of me.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila