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last laugh

noun as in ultimate success

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So, in the long run, Sarah Palin might actually get the last laugh.

But with the Supreme Court set to rule on two major same-sex marriage cases this year, the old fogies might have the last laugh.

And in the end, it seems that Phillips, my old mentor, maligned as he has been by Cuban disinformation, will have the last laugh.

In which case, it could be the congresswoman who winds up having the last laugh.

If Rivers describes this without any bitterness whatsoever, that may be because she almost always manages to have the last laugh.

At this I did at last laugh out aloud; when to my surprise, Alan joined in, and laughed as merrily as myself.

He had presumed for a year to snap his fingers and laugh in the face of Fate, and Fate was to have the last laugh.

That night the old order had its last laugh, and it rang strangely and sadly.

I remembered the old adage, "he that laughs last, laughs best," and was bound to have the last laugh.

There she lay, until the last laugh and sound of rattling glass had died away below, and her aunt's guests had left the house.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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