a rich man's joke is always funny
People are always inclined to ingratiate themselves to a wealthy person, as by laughing at their jokes (regardless of their quality of humor). Everyone at the table was fawning over the billionaire CEO, hanging on his every word like trained dogs. A rich man's jokes are always funny, I suppose. You might get ahead a little faster in this industry if you accepted the fact that a rich man's joke is always funny. The sooner you learn that the unwritten rule around here is "a rich man's joke is always funny," the better. Wealthy clients are to be kept happy at all times.
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rich man's joke is always funny
Prov. Everyone wants to curry favor with rich people and so will always laugh at their jokes. (From a poem by Thomas Edward Brown.) We all thought that Mr. Lisle was a narrow-minded, unpleasant old man, but we were careful to act otherwise, because he was wealthy. A rich man's joke is always funny.
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