English Explanatory Dictionary

laugh on the other side of one's face

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To experience discomfiture after displaying cockiness.

Word forms

laugh on the other side of one's face laughs on the other side of one's face laughing on the other side of one's face laughed on the other side of one's face laugh on the other side of one's mouth laugh on the wrong side of one's face laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth laugh out of the other side of one's face laugh out of the other side of one's mouth laugh out of the wrong side of one's face laugh out of the wrong side of one's mouth

Related words

have the last laugh he who laughs last laughs best talk speak out of both sides of one's mouth
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