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Fatimah0786 Posted 12 years ago
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Difference between 'make mockery of something' and 'make mockery out of something'

What is the difference between 'make mockery of something' and 'make mockery out of something' ?
  

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fatimah0786 What is the difference between 'make mockery of something' and 'make mockery out of something' ? Do you have a source for these phrases? Where did you find them?

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  • fatimah0786 What is the difference between 'make mockery of something' and 'make mockery out of something' ?
  • Do you have a source for these phrases?
  • Where did you find them?
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fatimah0786 What is the difference between 'make mockery of something' and 'make mockery out of something' ?
Do you have a source for these phrases?
Where did you find them?
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I watched a documentary on you tube where the reporter says, "She, a democrat has made a mockery out of democracy". I usually here people using the first phrase and hence got confused.
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fatimah0786the reporter says, "She, a democrat, has made a mockery out of democracy".
Reporters, not to mention other people, can sometimes say things they don't really intend to say. Or this may be a regional variant of the usual phrase. The "out" should not be there.

CJ
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There is one saying I know with "make *** out of YYY," but there are probably others:

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
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