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Last laugh   /læst læf/   Listen
Last laugh

noun
1.
Ultimate success achieved after a near failure (inspired by the saying 'he laughs best who laughs last').





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"Last laugh" Quotes from Famous Books



... last laugh aboard the First Venture; for the condition of the schooner was then ...
— Billy Topsail & Company - A Story for Boys • Norman Duncan
... now, I want it to be on my own terms. And that's to just sit here and wait for it to come. And if they pin the Medal—the Solar Medal—on me, I'm going to be up there where all good spacemen go, having the last laugh, when they put my name ...
— Stand by for Mars! • Carey Rockwell
... because of the stickiness of the taffy. "They think they're smart, girls do; I don't mean you, but most of them. I know how to handle them all right. They try to make a fool of you and then just giggle, but the last laugh is the best, ...
— Pee-wee Harris • Percy Keese Fitzhugh


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