tomar por el pito del sereno

Language: es

1.
Spaininformalpejorative
- Figurative: To treat someone with contempt or disregard, to take them for a fool or to make a fool of them.
2.
Spaininformalpejorative
- Literal: To take something to be the whistle or signal of the night watchman (a literal reading of the phrase without idiomatic force).

Examples:

ES: Creéis que me vais a tomar por el pito del sereno, pero los tontos... sois vosotros que no creéis que los fantasmas no existen.
EN: You think you're making a fool of me, but you are the fools.. you who don't believe that ghosts exist.
ES: Si esta vez no hacemos nada, esos de ahí nos van a tomar por el pito del sereno.
EN: What's going on? Hello.

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