look down on

Meaning

1. Oxford80% of films

   to think that you are better than sb / sth

   I used to look down on people with hobbies.

   because I used to look down on people like that.

2. Editorial20% of films

   to direct your eyes downward toward someone or something below you

In the movies · 6

• You're forgetting the laws of the jungle, looking down on me.The Gentlemen2020
• Miss fern used to come there. She looks down on me.The Bad Seed1956
• I used to look down on people with hobbies.Maria Bamford: Old Baby2017
• look down on us from those stars.The Lion King2019
• because I used to look down on people like that.The Lego Movie2014
• Look down on this fucker, grind some chicken gristle.Nightmare Alley2021
• And I can see how you could then look down on me from all the way up there.La La Land2016
• I looked down...Long Shot2019

Learn it in full scenes

• The Gentlemen2020
  • Fletcher Pitches His Story to Ray
  • Mickey and Matthew's Dinner Standoff
  • Mickey Pitches His Weed Empire
• The Lego Movie2014
  • Emmet Follows the Instructions
  • Emmet's Morning Routine in Bricksburg
  • Emmet Touches the Piece of Resistance

From the same entry

• be just looking
• be looking to do
• look bad
• look bad
• look good
• look here
• look how
• look up and down
• look yourself
• never look back
• not much to look at
• to look at

More phrasal verbs

• stand up for
• line up
• bump into
• shut down
• occur to
• hang around
• pay off
• throw up
• fall for
• eat out
• break out
• run into