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Phrase(s): laugh oneself out of something
to lose out on something because one has made light of it or laughed at it. • While you were howling with laughter about my hat, you laughed yourself out of a ride to town. The bus just pulled away. • You laugh too much. You just laughed yourself out of a job., Phrase(s): laugh someone out of something
to force someone to leave a place by laughing in ridicule. • The citizens laughed the speaker out of the hall. • We laughed the city council out of the auditorium.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs