be laughing on the other side of your face
UK US laugh out of the other side of your mouthused to tell someone that, despite being pleased now, they will not be pleased later when things do not happen as expected or planned:
She's pleased with her promotion but she'll be laughing on the other side of her face when she sees the extra work.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making people sad, shocked and upset
- aback
- amiss
- appal
- bite
- bother
- burn
- hit/touch a (raw) nerve idiom
- horrify
- hurt sb's feelings idiom
- hurtful
- it'll (all) end in tears idiom
- laugh
- mess
- nose
- shake
- tear sb apart
- tear sb's heart out idiom
- torture
- traumatize
- twist/turn the knife (in the wound) idiom
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