laugh on the wrong side of one's face
laugh on the wrong side of one's face verb: synonym of laugh on the other side of one's face.
Verb
laugh on the wrong side of one's face (third-person singular simple present laughs on the wrong side of one's face, present participle laughing on the wrong side of one's face, simple past and past participle laughed on the wrong side of one's face)
- Synonym of laugh on the other side of one's face.
- Socialism? Ha! ha! ha! Where’s the money to come from? Ha! ha! ha!... Hitler will at any rate go down in history as the man who made the City of London laugh on the wrong side of its face. For the first time in their lives the comfortable were uncomfortable, the professional optimists had to admit...1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. II
- Synonyms:
- laugh on the other side of one's face
Synonyms of laugh on the wrong side of one's face
Forms of laugh on the wrong side of one's face
| third-person singular present | laughs on the wrong side of one's face |
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| present participle | laughing on the wrong side of one's face |
| past participle | laughed on the wrong side of one's face |
| past | laughed on the wrong side of one's face |
Questions about laugh on the wrong side of one's face
- What does laugh on the wrong side of one's face mean?
- Laugh on the wrong side of one's face means synonym of laugh on the other side of one's face.
- What part of speech is laugh on the wrong side of one's face?
- Laugh on the wrong side of one's face is a verb.
- What is the past tense of laugh on the wrong side of one's face?
- The past tense of laugh on the wrong side of one's face is laughed on the wrong side of one's face.
Words near laugh on the wrong side of one's face in the dictionary
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