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laughs in one's sleeve

laughs in one's sleeve is the third-person singular simple present indicative of laugh in one's sleeve.

Meaning of laugh in one's sleeve

Verb

laugh in one's sleeve (third-person singular simple present laughs in one's sleeve, present participle laughing in one's sleeve, simple past and past participle laughed in one's sleeve)

  1. (Canada, US, idiomatic) to laugh in secret or to oneself, usually gloatingly
    • Nixon boastfully called the seven days he spent on the Chinese mainland "the week that changed the world"–without, however, specifying whether the change was for the better or for the worse. The way he humbled himself before Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai reminded me of the tribute-bearing foreign...1983, James C. H. Shen, “Beginnings of Endings”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally, Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 7

Questions about laughs in one's sleeve

What is laughs in one's sleeve the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Laughs in one's sleeve is the third-person singular simple present indicative of laugh in one's sleeve.

Words near laughs in one's sleeve in the dictionary

  1. laughs
  2. laughs all the way to the bank
  3. laughs at
  4. laughs away
  5. laughs down
  6. laughs in one's sleeve
  7. laughs in someone's face
  8. laughs like a drain
  9. laughs off
  10. laughs on the other side of one's face
  11. laughs on the wrong side of one's face

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