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Mickey mouse normally means "small-time, amateurish or trivial. "
Unimportant; trivial: "It's a Mickey Mouse operation compared to what goes on in Lyons or Paris" (Jack Higgins).
Irritatingly petty: the school's Mickey Mouse requirements for graduation.
Intellectually unchallenging; simple: His Mickey Mouse assignments soon bored the students.
Melodramatic or sentimental. Used especially of popular music.
[edit] Pejorative use of Mickey's name
"Mickey Mouse" is a slang expression meaning small-time, amateurish or trivial.
In 1984, just after a game in which Wayne Gretzky's Edmonton Oilers beat the New Jersey Devils 13-4, Gretzky is quoted as saying to a reporter, "Well, it's time they got their act together, they're ruining the whole league. They had better stop running a Mickey Mouse organization and put somebody on the ice."
In the 1993 Warner Bros. film Demolition Man, as Sylvester Stallone's character is fighting the malfunctioning AI of his out-of-control police car, he shouts for the system to "Brake! Brake! Brake, now, you Mickey Mouse piece of ****!"[1]
In the 1996 Warner Bros. film Space Jam, Bugs Bunny derogatorily referred to Daffy Duck's idea for the name of their basketball team ("the Ducks", as in the Mighty Ducks) as a "Mickey Mouse organization."
In schools a "Mickey Mouse course" is a class where very little effort is necessary in order to attain a good grade and/or one where the subject matter of such a class is not of any importance in the labour market. [2]
Musicians often refer to a film score that directly follows each action on screen as Mickey Mousing (also mickey-mousing and mickeymousing).
"Mickey Mouse money" is a derogatory term for foreign currency, often used by Americans to describe indigenous currency in a foreign country in which they are traveling. The term also refers to fake banknotes, especially in UK. (Disney theme parks and resorts have an actual kind of Mickey Mouse money, Disney Dollars. This money is worthless outside the park, which may be the origin of the expression.)
The software company Microsoft is often derogatorily called "Mickeysoft".[3] In Finland, this becomes "Mikkisofta" ("Mickey Software").[citation needed]
In card games, it is common for a "Mickey Mouse hand" to be played for instructional purposes. In such a hand all cards of all players that would normally be concealed are displayed, to demonstrate to new players the rules and procedures of the game.
In motorsport, short road courses with tight corners, short straightways and no overtaking spots are sometimes called "Mickey Mouse tracks".
In Cockney rhyming slang, a "Mickey" refers to a Liverpudlian or Liverpool FC supporter (ie. Mickey Mouser = Scouser). It may also refer to someone's home (house = Mickey Mouse).
The Los Angeles Mafia was known, because of their disorganised behaviour and mess-ups, as the "Mickey Mouse Mafia"
In the beginning of the 1980s, the then British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher once called the European Parliament a Mickey Mouse parliament; meaning a discussion club without influence.
2006-11-30 17:55:06
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answered by SweetPea 3
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i think of a few human beings confer with faith as "brainwashing" because of the fact they individually experience they have been stimulated by family and society (predominately from an early age) to have self belief in a faith they might now no longer thoroughly have self belief in. consequently, those persons are left with a feeling of being wrongly stimulated by the very comparable human beings they have confidence. The term "brainwashing" is obviously an rather unfavourable term to throw around, and could be extremely of an over-exaggeration, yet human beings subsequently are regularly describing the term from a private point.
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answered by ? 4
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A Donald Duck Answer!
2006-11-30 18:25:20
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answered by ••Mott•• 6
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mickey mouse can be a pharse to describe something dumb or useless
2006-11-30 17:32:27
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answered by nanabe 4
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it means insignificant
that show was micky mouse
below medium
2006-11-30 17:38:44
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answered by Anonymous
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Something that is petty and ultimately meaningless
2006-11-30 17:32:15
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answered by Anonymous
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its reffering to primary or easy questions
2006-11-30 17:46:21
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answered by debbie2243 7
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Easy stuff.
2006-11-30 17:32:34
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answered by Θ Chez Θ 3
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Silly, stupid, ridiculous.
2006-11-30 17:35:54
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answered by Blue 4
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