In the movie, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", consider the following dialog...
Ron: "Why do you think she wouldn't tell us who she was going with"
Harry: "Because we'd take the mickey out of her if she did"
"Because we'd take the mickey out of her if she did" - What in the world does this mean?
2006-06-13 12:01:52 · 26 answers · asked by Serenity 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Taking the mickey
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Look up take the mickey in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.Taking the mickey and taking the piss are British slang expressions meaning to tease or ridicule. Also shortened to take the mick. An abbreviated form of the Cockney rhyming slang take the mickey bliss, meaning 'take the piss'. E.g."Stop taking the mickey out of Billy, he's very sensitive and you're upsetting him." Cf. 'take the Michael' and 'extract the Michael'. [1930s] Another new one is, 'extracting the urine'.
An alternate theory of its etymology is that mickey is a contraction of micturition or micturate, meaning urination/urine i.e. piss, "mickey" being a suitable alternative when, for instance, in the company of the easily offended to "taking the piss".
2006-06-13 12:39:36 · answer #1 · answered by toomanyquestions 1 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It means to make fun of, somewhere in English folk lore there will be an answer and an origin to who or what mickey was. Sorry I dont know the origin.
2006-06-13 19:07:14 · answer #2 · answered by Bezza 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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love.7hero
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who knows what does "mickey" mean?
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da_jullie
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Well, if it is used in the sentence "take the mickey out of someone" - it means to make fun of someone.
2006-06-13 19:04:16 · answer #3 · answered by TxMom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Take the mickey out of..." is a British expression for making fun of someone.
2006-06-13 19:05:27 · answer #4 · answered by world_trvlr_and_explorer 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm only guessing, but i think it means taking the winds out of her sails or in other words disappointing her.
2006-06-13 19:06:34 · answer #5 · answered by wendy p 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it means to make fun of or tease, take down a peg
2006-06-13 19:10:38 · answer #6 · answered by muldoon1987 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it means to take the magic out of her.
2006-06-13 19:05:44 · answer #7 · answered by Sheerah 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a good question. I think it probably means they would make fun of her.
2006-06-13 19:05:26 · answer #8 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's Cockney Rhyming Slang, and I don't know how old you are, so I'm only telling you that much.
2006-06-13 19:05:59 · answer #9 · answered by PariahMaterial 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
means to make fun of her. take the piss out of her
2006-06-13 19:04:54 · answer #10 · answered by ninny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋