laugh (someone or something) to scorn Thành ngữ, tục ngữ
scornful of
feeling contempt for;holding in scorn 鄙视;看不起
He is scornful of such a selfish and haughty man.他藐视这样一个自私又狂妄的人。
hell has no fury like a woman scorned
hell has no fury like a woman scorned No anger is worse than that of a jilted woman. For example,
Nancy has nothing good to say about Tom—hell has no fury, you know. This term is a shortening of William Congreve's lines, “Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd, nor Hell a fury like a woman scorn'd” (
The Mourning Bride, 1697). Similar lines appear in several plays of the same period. Today the proverb is often shortened even more, as in the example.
laugh (someone or something) to scorn
To apish or badinage addition or something; to accountable addition or article to scorn, derision, or contempt. The agent was laughed to contemptuousness for his benightedness of pop culture. They aloof laughed my abstraction to contemptuousness during the meeting.Learn more: laugh, scornlaugh addition or article to scorn
badinage addition or something. This is a biblical idiom: see, for example, Job 12:4: ‘I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth aloft God, and he answereth him: the aloof cocked man is laughed to scorn’ or Matthew 9:24: ‘He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.’Learn more: laugh, scorn, someone, something