单词 | on the laugh |
释义 | > as lemmason the laugh P4. on the laugh: laughing; highly amused. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > [adjective] > laughing laughingOE on the laugh1770 1770 E. Thompson Compositions J. Oldham I. p. iii When the tottering Pedagogue made his Entry, they were all on the Laugh. 1843 Foreign Q. Rev. 30 119 All the world is on the laugh, while the great Frenchman is playing his man off. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) vi. 53 ‘Of course you did,’ cried Osborne, still on the laugh. 1910 L. W. Gascoyne-Cecil Changing China (1913) xviii. 223 The Chinese coolie loves a jest, and once he is on the laugh he will..be much more inclined to attend to serious teaching. < as lemmas |
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