Word Family Worksheets

✔ Make fun of (or poke fun at) - to make jokes about someone or something in an unkind way.

➡ Example - The other children made fun of her because she was always so serious.

✔ Prankster (noun) - someone who plays tricks on other people.

➡ Example - You weren't the first prankster to destroy the car I rent from mum, and you won't be the last.

✔ A figure of fun - someone who is laughed at by other people.

➡ Example - I wish the little Irish girl wouldn't make us figures of fun, said Ben, speaking in an annoyed tone.

✔ Laughing stock - someone or something that everyone thinks is very silly.

➡ Example - Another performance like that and this team will be the laughing stock of the league.

✔ For a laugh - If you do something for a laugh, you do it for enjoyment. 

➡ Example - Just for a laugh, I pretended that I'd forgotten it was his birthday.

✔ Make a monkey out of someone - to make someone seem stupid.

➡ Example - I'm not going to dance too much at the party because I don't want to make a monkey out of myself in front of my coworkers.

✔ Laugh someone/something out of court (informal) - if you laugh someone or something out of court, you show them that you think their ideas or suggestions are very silly.

➡ Example - When she suggested trying the new treatment, they laughed her out of court.

✔ Pulling someone's leg - teasing (making fun of) somebody.

➡ Example - Stop pulling my leg. I know you’re only kidding!