English Dictionary

laugh on the other side of one's face

動詞

イギリス英語 くだけた表現 自動詞

(UK, intransitive, informal) To experience discomfiture after displaying cockiness.

日本語の意味

自惚れや傲慢さを露呈した後に、結果として窮地に追い込まれる（慇懃さを欠く姿勢が逆効果となる）。 / 自信過剰を示した後に、裏目に出て落ち込んだり、面目を失ったりする経験をする。

He bragged he'd never lose, but when the contest backfired he laughed on the other side of one's face.

彼は決して負けないと自慢していたが、コンテストが思わぬ結果になったときには痛い目に遭った。

意味（1）

(UK, intransitive, informal) To experience discomfiture after displaying cockiness.

Socialism? Ha! ha! ha! Where’s the money to come from? Ha! ha! ha!... Hitler will at any rate go down in history as the man who made the City of London laugh on the wrong side of its face. For the first time in their lives the comfortable were uncomfortable, the professional optimists had to admit that there was something wrong.

laughs on the other side of one's face （ present singular third-person ）

laughing on the other side of one's face （ participle present ）

laughed on the other side of one's face （ participle past ）

laughed on the other side of one's face （ past ）