last laugh
Example Sentences
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Though this focus sometimes led critics to allege that Cook was the wrong man for the job, in each case, he got the last laugh.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026
"We were all kind of scoffing, 'Arthur who writes the truck commercials is writing a drama!?' And of course then Arthur had the last laugh, because two weeks later he was famous."
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
His nature is to win and to wound and to get the last laugh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026
Yet the doomed queen has had the last laugh in the form of an extended afterlife.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
In the end, though, Joe Louis would have the last laugh.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
