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单词 to have the last laugh
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to have the last laugh
c. to have the last laugh and variants: to be vindicated after being the subject of ridicule, derision, or scepticism.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > achieve success (of persons) > be successful in the end
to have the last laugh1822
1822 G. C. tr. J.-B. Louvet de Couvray Amours Chevalier de Faublas IV. 208 I question who will have the last laugh, M. de Rosambert; for let me tell you, I don't like to be turned into ridicule.
1886 J. M. Morton Taken from French in Comediettas & Farces 145 Lady F. Well, I confess you have the best of the game. Sir F. And the last laugh!
1937 G. Gershwin & I. Gershwin They All Laughed (song) 4 They laughed at us and how! But Ho, Ho, Ho! Who's got the last laugh now?
1968 D. Godfrey in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories 2nd ser. 306 The Yankee came back about the end of August and we had to give him the last laugh.
1975 J. Aiken Voices in Empty House iv. 121 The dead really have the last laugh on the living.
2005 Independent 30 Sept. 7/1 Sir John Eliot Gardiner, who was dumped by a major record label,..has had the last laugh after his self-released album of Bach cantatas was named record of the year.
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