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                            Phrase(s): laugh oneself out of something 
to lose out on something because one has made light of it or laughed at it.  •  While you were howling with laughter about my hat, you laughed yourself out of a ride to town. The bus just pulled away.  •  You laugh too much. You just laughed yourself out of a job., Phrase(s): laugh someone out of something 
to force someone to leave a place by laughing in ridicule.  •  The citizens laughed the speaker out of the hall.  •  We laughed the city council out of the auditorium.
                        
                        
 
                        
                            McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs