laugh in one's sleeve
verb
Roget 840:
amuse,
entertain,
divert,
enliven;
tickle the fancy;
titillate,
raise a smile,
put in good humor;
cause laughter,
create laughter,
occasion laughter,
raise laughter,
excite laughter,
produce laughter,
convulse with laughter;
set the table in a roar,
be the death of one.
recreate,
solace,
cheer,
rejoice;
please
etc.
829;
interest;
treat,
regale.
amuse oneself,
game;
play a game,
play pranks,
play tricks;
sport,
disport,
toy,
wanton,
revel,
junket,
feast,
carouse,
banquet,
make merry,
drown care;
drive dull care away;
frolic,
gambol,
frisk,
romp;
caper;
dance
etc.
(leap)
309;
keep up the ball;
run a rig,
sow one's wild oats,
have one's fling,
take one's pleasure;
paint the town red [Slang];
see life;
desipere in loco [Lat.],
play the fool.
make holiday,
keep holiday;
go a Maying.
while away the time,
beguile the time;
kill time,
dally.
smile,
simper,
smirk;
grin,
grin like a Cheshire cat;
mock,
laugh in one's sleeve;
laugh,
laugh outright;
giggle,
titter,
snigger,
crow,
snicker,
chuckle,
cackle;
burst out,
burst into a fit of laughter;
shout,
split,
roar.
shake one's sides,
split one's sides,
hold both one's sides;
roar with laughter,
die with laughter.
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Roget 930:
despise,
contemn,
scorn,
disdain,
feel contempt for,
view with a scornful eye;
disregard,
slight,
not mind;
pass by
etc.
(neglect)
460.
look down upon;
hold cheap,
hold in contempt,
hold in disrespect;
think nothing of,
think small beer of;
make light of;
underestimate
etc.
483;
esteem slightly,
esteem of small or no account;
take no account of,
care nothing for;
set no store by;
not care a straw,
sneeze at
etc.
(unimportance)
643;
set at naught,
laugh in one's sleeve,
laugh up one's sleeve,
snap one's fingers at,
shrug one's shoulders,
turn up one's nose at,
pooh-pooh,
damn with faint praise"
[Pope];
whistle at,
sneer at;
curl up one's lip,
toss the head,
traiter de haut enbas [Fr.];
laugh at
etc.
(be disrespectful)
929.
point the finger of scorn,
hold up to scorn,
laugh to scorn;
scout,
hoot,
flout,
hiss,
scoff at.
turn one's back upon,
turn a cold shoulder upon;
tread upon,
trample upon,
trample under foot;
spurn,
kick;
fling to the winds
etc.
(repudiate)
610;
send away with a flea in the ear.
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Roget 856:
ridicule,
deride,
mock,
taunt;
snigger;
laugh in one's sleeve;
tease
[ridicule lightly],
badinage,
banter,
rally,
chaff,
joke,
twit,
quiz,
roast;
haze [U.S.];
tehee†;
fleer†;
show up.
play upon,
play tricks upon;
fool to the top of one's bent;
laugh at,
grin at,
smile at;
poke fun at.
satirize,
parody,
caricature,
burlesque,
travesty.
turn into ridicule;
make merry with;
make fun of,
make game of,
make a fool of,
make an April fool of†;
rally;
scoff
etc.
(disrespect)
929.
raise a laugh
etc.
(amuse)
840;
play the fool,
make a fool of oneself.
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Roget 526:
be latent
etc.
adj.;
lurk,
smolder,
underlie,
make no sign;
escape observation,
escape detection,
escape recognition;
lie hid
etc.
528.
laugh in one's sleeve;
keep back
etc.
(conceal)
528.
involve,
imply,
understand,
allude to,
infer,
leave an inference;
entail;
whisper
etc.
(conceal)
528.
[understand the implication]
read between the lines.
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Roget 929:
hold in disrespect
etc.
(despise)
930;
misprize,
disregard,
slight,
trifle with,
set at naught,
pass by,
push aside,
overlook,
turn one's back upon,
laugh in one's sleeve;
be disrespectful
etc.
adj.,
be discourteous
etc.
895;
treat with disrespect
etc.
n.;
set down,
put down,
browbeat.
dishonor,
desecrate;
insult,
affront,
outrage.
speak slightingly of;
disparage
etc.
(dispraise)
932;
vilipend†,
vilify,
call names;
throw dirt,
fling dirt;
drag through the mud,
point at,
indulge in personalities;
make mouths,
make faces;
bite the thumb;
take by the beard;
pluck by the beard;
toss in a blanket,
tar and feather.
have in derision;
hold in derision;
deride,
scoff,
barrack,
sneer,
laugh at,
snigger,
ridicule,
gibe,
mock,
jeer,
hiss,
hoot,
taunt,
twit,
niggle†,
gleek†,
gird,
flout,
fleer†;
roast,
turn into ridicule;
burlesque
etc.
856;
laugh to scorn
etc.
(contempt)
930;
smoke;
fool;
make game of,
make a fool of,
make an April fool of†;
play a practical joke;
lead one a dance,
run the rig upon,
have a fling at,
scout;
mob.
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