 85  a laughing-stock — a person or thing that causes general ridicule: to make someone a laughing-stock 1. She leads young men on and then she turns prim and proper on them. She's a born teaser. She'll never change. (J. Braine) 2. I didn't lead him on. He took this highly unreasonable fancy in spite of plenty of cold water. (J. Galsworthy) 3. Come, Clare, don't be silly, and make us a laughing-stock. (J. Galsworthy) (2) to set one's teeth (nerves) on edge — to make one disgusted; to make one feel annoyed or irritated by a remark, a sound or an action 1. The outdated temporary gentleman phrase set my teeth on edge. (J. Braine) 2. ... but Muriel chattered all the time ... with an exaggeration of her best social manner which set my teeth on edge. (A. Cronin) 3. The laugh, the first they have heard from him, sets Trench's teeth on edge. (B. Shaw) 4. He had the plethoric self-satisfaction of the very fat. It was an outrage. It set Neilson's nerves on edge. (W. S. Maugham) (3) to have a bee in one's bonnet — to be "mad" about some point; to be particular about something or some idea. 85 |
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