is beneath contempt
It's not worth laughing at. Metaphors are worthless. It also means to scorn and sneer at something or behavior.
Idiom explanation
It's not worth a smile. Metaphors are worthless. It also means to scorn and sneer at something or behavior. It's not worth the same thing.
Idioms and allusions
[source]: in Wang Tao's on the strength of laughter in the Qing Dynasty, it is said that "it's not worth laughing that people fight wildly, because the creation is subjective." Another anonymous letter was received, about several of which were absurd and not worth laughing at. The 21st chapter of popular romance of the Republic of China by Cai Dongfan
Discrimination of words
Synonym: not worth the same thing usage: used as predicate and attribute; used to ridicule and scorn things
is beneath contempt
The whip is not as long as the horse's belly - biān cháng bù jí mǎ fù
see the view and think of a friend - qīng fēng míng yuè