take the mickey
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From Cockney rhyming slang "to take the Mickey Bliss" (for take the piss)
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take the mickey (third-person singular simple present takes the mickey, present participle taking the mickey, simple past took the mickey, past participle taken the mickey)
- (intransitive, UK, slang) To ridicule or mock.
- Are you takin' the mickey? You'll get yer 'ead bashed in.
