last laugh

Speech parts

1. last laugh - Noun

2. last laugh - Phrase

Meaning

ultimate success achieved after a near failure (inspired by the saying `he laughs best who laughs last')

Source: WordNet

Hypernyms

triumph victory

Examples

Be a clown, be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool, play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh . Cole Porter

I guess God has the last laugh. From up on high he lets us kill. And his people die for their faith. And we call it triumph of the will. Ed Harcourt

That was the universe: you could beat it once, you could float a message in a bottle across half of eternity, but the universe would always find a way to have the last laugh. Alastair Reynolds

Yeah, some kids called me fish lips because I had these really full lips. Now I'm sure all those same girls are getting collagen injections, so I'm having the last laugh. Denise Richards

we had the last laugh after the votes were counted Source: Internet

Associated with this particular style is also screenwriter Carl Mayer and films such as Murnau's Last Laugh (1924). Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

last laugh

Close letter words and terms

Last Judgment last kilometre last known good last layer last legs last letter of the alphabet