英语词汇“to laugh all the way to the bank”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P2. to laugh (also to cry and variants) all the way to the bank: to relish (also ironically to deplore) the fact that one is making money, esp. undeservedly or at the expense of others; (in weakened sense) to make a lot of money easily.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (intransitive)] > make profit > profiteer

to rob the spittle1632

to rob the spital1749

to laugh (also to cry and variants) all the way to the bank1908

profiteer1917

1908 F. H. Smith Peter xviii. 48 Some of them heard Mason laugh all the way to the bank. He's cleaned up half a million and gone back home.

1946 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Courier 3 Sept. 13 Eddie Walker perhaps is the wealthiest fight manager in the game..The other night when his man Belloise lost, Eddie had the miseries..He felt so terrible, he cried all the way to the bank!

1959 Times 9 June 14/7 He [sc. Liberace] agreed that the expression: ‘I cried all the way to the Bank’ had become a standard gag of his. He used it to reply to critics who did not like his performances.

1969 Listener 2 Jan. 17/3 I thought: ah no, this isn't right at all people will laugh at me. Then I said: better laugh all the way to the bank than just be laughed at.

1977 Zigzag Aug. 22/2 Look at Screaming Lord Sutch for example, or Alice Cooper gibbering all the way to the bank.

2002 Independent 12 June (Review section) 4/1 Anna Kournikova is also a natural with the media, smiling and flirting her way through the still male-dominated sports world—and consequently laughing all the way to the bank.

单词	to laugh all the way to the bank
释义	> as lemmas to laugh (also to cry and variants) all the way to the bank P2. to laugh (also to cry and variants) all the way to the bank: to relish (also ironically to deplore) the fact that one is making money, esp. undeservedly or at the expense of others; (in weakened sense) to make a lot of money easily. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (intransitive)] > make profit > profiteer to rob the spittle1632 to rob the spital1749 to laugh (also to cry and variants) all the way to the bank1908 profiteer1917 1908 F. H. Smith Peter xviii. 48 Some of them heard Mason laugh all the way to the bank. He's cleaned up half a million and gone back home. 1946 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Courier 3 Sept. 13 Eddie Walker perhaps is the wealthiest fight manager in the game..The other night when his man Belloise lost, Eddie had the miseries..He felt so terrible, he cried all the way to the bank! 1959 Times 9 June 14/7 He [sc. Liberace] agreed that the expression: ‘I cried all the way to the Bank’ had become a standard gag of his. He used it to reply to critics who did not like his performances. 1969 Listener 2 Jan. 17/3 I thought: ah no, this isn't right at all people will laugh at me. Then I said: better laugh all the way to the bank than just be laughed at. 1977 Zigzag Aug. 22/2 Look at Screaming Lord Sutch for example, or Alice Cooper gibbering all the way to the bank. 2002 Independent 12 June (Review section) 4/1 Anna Kournikova is also a natural with the media, smiling and flirting her way through the still male-dominated sports world—and consequently laughing all the way to the bank. extracted from bankn.³ < as lemmas
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