last laugh



*last laugh (on someone)

Fig. laughter or ridicule at someone who has laughed at or ridiculed you. (*Typically: get ~; have ~; give someone ~.) John laughed when I got a D on the final exam. I got the last laugh, though. He failed the course. Mr. Smith said I was foolish when I bought an old building. I had the last laugh when I sold it a month later for twice what I paid for it.
See also: last, laugh

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
&Aelig;Lfsige-Anglo-Saxon
Silas['sailəs]
Brando-Ancient Germanic
Elyzabethi-LIZ-ə-bəthEnglish (Rare)
Roma['rɔma]
Sandip-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil