"make a cat laugh" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Coined in 1893 as part of the advertising for the Broadway production of the play Charlie's Aunt, (\"it makes a cat laugh\") based on the observation that cats do not laugh.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makes a cat laugh",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making a cat laugh",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a cat laugh",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a cat laugh",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "make<,,made> a cat laugh"
      },
      "expansion": "make a cat laugh (third-person singular simple present makes a cat laugh, present participle making a cat laugh, simple past and past participle made a cat laugh)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1914 March, Edmund Breese, “The Art of Advertising an Actor”, in The Rotarian, volume 4, number 7, page 28",
          "text": "The only play I know of that has ever established a trademark is \"Charlie's Aunt.\" Perhaps some of you recall \"Charlie's Aunt.\" Before that play was produced in New York City the only printed commentary was \"it makes a cat laugh.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Robert Barnard, Death and the Princess",
          "text": "All the bowing and scraping was enough to make a cat laugh, but the Princess took it all in her stride — her demeanour commonsensical (didn't everyone who went by train get this sort of treatment?) and a shade demure.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Patrick Taylor, Fingal O'Reilly, Irish Doctor",
          "text": "It would have made a cat laugh to see the prof's face.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Gordon Leidner, Lincoln's Gift: How Humor Shaped Lincoln's Life and Legacy",
          "text": "Carr added that he had never seen \"another who provoked so much mirth, and who entered into rollicking fun with such glee. He could make a cat laugh.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be extremely funny."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "funny",
          "funny"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "make a cat laugh"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Coined in 1893 as part of the advertising for the Broadway production of the play Charlie's Aunt, (\"it makes a cat laugh\") based on the observation that cats do not laugh.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makes a cat laugh",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making a cat laugh",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a cat laugh",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a cat laugh",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "make<,,made> a cat laugh"
      },
      "expansion": "make a cat laugh (third-person singular simple present makes a cat laugh, present participle making a cat laugh, simple past and past participle made a cat laugh)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1914 March, Edmund Breese, “The Art of Advertising an Actor”, in The Rotarian, volume 4, number 7, page 28",
          "text": "The only play I know of that has ever established a trademark is \"Charlie's Aunt.\" Perhaps some of you recall \"Charlie's Aunt.\" Before that play was produced in New York City the only printed commentary was \"it makes a cat laugh.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Robert Barnard, Death and the Princess",
          "text": "All the bowing and scraping was enough to make a cat laugh, but the Princess took it all in her stride — her demeanour commonsensical (didn't everyone who went by train get this sort of treatment?) and a shade demure.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Patrick Taylor, Fingal O'Reilly, Irish Doctor",
          "text": "It would have made a cat laugh to see the prof's face.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Gordon Leidner, Lincoln's Gift: How Humor Shaped Lincoln's Life and Legacy",
          "text": "Carr added that he had never seen \"another who provoked so much mirth, and who entered into rollicking fun with such glee. He could make a cat laugh.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be extremely funny."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "funny",
          "funny"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "make a cat laugh"
}