laugh down

laugh someone or something down

to cause someone to quit or cause something to end by laughing in ridicule. Her singing career was destroyed when the audience laughed her down as an amateur. The cruel audience laughed down the amateur singer. They laughed down the magic act also.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Colette	ko-LET	French
Sture	STOO-re (Swedish)	Swedish, Medieval Scandinavian
Jane	[dʒein]
Chukwuemeka	-	Western African, Igbo
Yvonne	ee-VON (French), i-VAWN (English), ee-VAWN (German)	French, English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Izolda	ee-ZAWL-dah (Polish)	Georgian, Polish