Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

laugh on the wrong side of one's face

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.13 in modern English

Syllables: laugh- on the wrong side of one's -face
IPA

49

Scrabble Score

29

Letters

3

Syllables

16

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Synonym of laugh on the other side of one's face.

Example Sentences

"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."

Inflected Forms

laughs on the wrong side of one's face (present, singular) laughing on the wrong side of one's face (participle, present) laughed on the wrong side of one's face (participle, past) laughed on the wrong side of one's face (past)

Synonyms

laugh on the other side of one's face

Questions

What does laugh on the wrong side of one's face mean?: Synonym of laugh on the other side of one's face.

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