take the mickey
verbEtymology Possibly from Cockney rhyming slang “to take the Mickey Bliss” (for take the piss).
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Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, Idiomatic, Slang To ridicule or mock.
- Are you takin’ the mickey? You’ll get yer ’ead bashed in.
- For the last eight years, taking the mickey out of George Bush has been great, victimless fun. Like taking candy from babies or shooting aquatically-challenged fish in size-challenged barrels.2008 November 15, Kenneth Nguyen, “Who's laughing now?”, in The Age newspaper: