laugh someone off the stage

laugh someone off the stage
laugh someone off the stage
Fig. to laugh rudely, forcing a person to leave a stage. •

The rude audience laughed the politician off the stage.

The children laughed the soprano off the stage. She really wasn't very good, you know.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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