last laugh
noun
: the satisfaction of ultimate triumph or success especially after being scorned or regarded as a failure
he got the last laugh on his early critics
Examples of last laugh in a Sentence
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Doncic and the Mavericks got last season’s last laugh by crushing the Suns in Game 7, 123-90.
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Dallas News, 5 Mar. 2023
Norm Macdonald is giving fans one last laugh.
—Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 13 May 2022
Jones had missed the previous three games because of an ankle injury, and Brisker got something of a last laugh on the former Alabama All-American.
—Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 26 Oct. 2022
Rangers are getting last laugh at those who mocked his second-round selection in 2020.
—Dallas News, 1 June 2022
For the three- to five-minute telegram, Mattingly charts a beginning, middle, and end, building to a big last laugh that really hits or to a poignant moment for an emotional telegram.
—Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2023
Even in death, Boston-bred Colangeli and Johnson, a New Jersey native, gave the L.A. crowd and the club that loved them one last laugh.
—Nate Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2021
But, as Dangle’s wife reminds her petty husband, the artist may have the last laugh.
—Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
But the creators of the comic book would have the last laugh.
—George Gene Gustines, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2022
Dallas News, 5 Mar. 2023
Norm Macdonald is giving fans one last laugh.
—Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 13 May 2022
Jones had missed the previous three games because of an ankle injury, and Brisker got something of a last laugh on the former Alabama All-American.
—Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 26 Oct. 2022
Rangers are getting last laugh at those who mocked his second-round selection in 2020.
—Dallas News, 1 June 2022
For the three- to five-minute telegram, Mattingly charts a beginning, middle, and end, building to a big last laugh that really hits or to a poignant moment for an emotional telegram.
—Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2023
Even in death, Boston-bred Colangeli and Johnson, a New Jersey native, gave the L.A. crowd and the club that loved them one last laugh.
—Nate Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2021
But, as Dangle’s wife reminds her petty husband, the artist may have the last laugh.
—Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
But the creators of the comic book would have the last laugh.
—George Gene Gustines, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2022
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