Meaning of laugh on the other side of one's face | Babel Free
Definitions
To experience discomfiture after displaying cockiness.
UK, informal, intransitive
Equivalents
Suomi
hymy hyytyy
Français
faire moins le malin
Examples
“You'll be laughing on the other side of your face when the police find out you've been lying to them.”
“Socialism? Ha! ha! ha! Where’s the money to come from? Ha! ha! ha!... Hitler will at any rate go down in history as the man who made the City of London laugh on the wrong side of its face. For the first time in their lives the comfortable were uncomfortable, the professional optimists had to admit that there was something wrong.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.