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ultimate success achieved after a near failure (inspired by the saying `he laughs best who laughs last')
we had the last laugh after the votes were counted
How To Use last laugh In A Sentence
- But the 55-year-old nearly had the last laugh as City quickly bagged a double to set up a thrilling finish. The Sun
- It's the electric motor that stops the diesel drivers having the last laugh at the pumps, too. The Sun
- Holding a rolling pin and determined to have the last laugh.
- We'll have the last laugh if she finds out that you're the one who played the trick.
- Des O'Connor is expecting to have the last laugh on his critics by soaring to the top of the Christmas hit parade.
- Men make jokes about women drivers, but women have the last laugh - their insurance rates are cheaper.
- And in a contest of social acumen between hyenas and monkeys, who knows who would get the last laugh?
- But the Americans may yet have the last laugh. Times, Sunday Times
- we had the last laugh after the votes were counted
- For 118 years, the sitting president nearly always has had the last laugh with closing remarks at an annual white-tie wingding called the Gridiron Club dinner.