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laugh on the wrong side of one's face en · VERB

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 that there was something wrong. 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. II:

Spelling	Features	Source
laughs on the wrong side of one's face	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic
laughed on the wrong side of one's face	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
laughed on the wrong side of one's face	Tense=Past	lexicographic
laughing on the wrong side of one's face	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic