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Different-yet-the-same continued - Take The Mickey

While I was on my wonderful vacation in Great Britain I got the wild idea to pick up a little notebook. I used it to jot down things that I found of interest. You know - turns of phrase, colloquialisms, verbal oddities. Things that I may have heard before but hadn't quite noticed in some cases.

"Take the mickey out of"
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"Take the piss out of", "Take the mickey out of" - To make someone look silly or someone taking advantage of another - to laugh at someone else's expense. You'd say "are you trying to take the piss out of me" unless you were talking to say your grandmother.

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