Increase your English vocabulary by learning and practicing these 20 English idioms about laughter!
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Examples:
- ‘The train is going to be forty minutes late.’ ‘Are you having a laugh?’
- ‘Her cousin’s laugh a minute, isn’t he?’ ‘I know – he’s hilarious!’ [positive]; ‘Her cousin’s laugh a minute, isn’t he?’ ‘I know – I’ve never seen him smile.’ [negative – ironic]
- If you go to the meeting without that report you’ll be a laughing stock.
- If you ask Ben for a pay rise you’ll be laughed out of court!
- If this product takes off, you’ll be laughing all the way to the bank!
- You’ll be laughing on the other side of your face when I’m rich and famous!
- Tell me who did this graffiti! It’s no laughing matter, you know!
- ‘Look – Jake’s dancing on the table!’ ‘He always was the class clown.’
- When I saw what her mum was wearing to the wedding, I burst out laughing!
- ‘Why did you walk all the way to the chip shop instead of driving?’ ‘For a laugh.’
- ‘I’m pretty sure Joanna will get the promotion instead of you.’ ‘Don’t make me laugh!’
- We had a laugh at the karaoke night, didn’t we?
- My grandad had everybody in stitches at the pub quiz last night.
- Bob was smug about winning the quiz, but I had the last laugh when he was disqualified!
- ‘Be careful getting off the ski-lift, darling!’ ‘Don’t worry. I laugh in the face of danger!’
- ‘Were you upset about getting a verbal warning?’ ‘Nah – I just laughed it off.’
- That film was so funny – I absolutely laughed my head off!
- I’m glad Dee went to the comedy club, despite her bad news. Laughter is the best medicine.
- When it started raining after I got locked out, I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
- ‘It looks like our pay rise has been cancelled.’ ‘Oh well. You’ve got to laugh, haven’t you?’
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