Meaning of laugh on the wrong side of one's face | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of laugh on the other side of one's face.

Examples

“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.”

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