laugh


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laugh

up/in (one's) sleeve
To rejoice or exult in secret, as at another's error or defeat.
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Suddenly Joey was standing beside us, it could not have been more sudden though he had come from beneath the table, and he was wearing his pantomime clothes (which he told us afterward were the only clothes he had) and his red and white face was so funny that David made gurgling sounds, which were his laugh trying to force a passage.
Joey thought he had toothache, so I explained what it really meant, and then Joey said, "Oh, I shall soon make him laugh," whereupon the following conversation took place between them:
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No more does his infernal laugh go echoing among the hills, and no more does his fat moon-face rise up to vex me.
ha!" he laughed. "The funniest tike, that youngster of mine!
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But observing that she and the others had begun to laugh, he too opened his mouth and laughed with them.
Epanchin a little, and amused the girls; they bowed and shook hands with some of their friends and nodded at a distance to others; they examined the ladies' dresses, noticed comicalities and eccentricities among the people, and laughed and talked among themselves.
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Then the Sheriff laughed again, but not as though he liked the jest, while the butchers said, one to another, "Before Heaven, never have we seen such a mad rollicking blade.
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I laughed, and started to draw on to the foot a silk stocking, while Mlle.
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"There's no difference," he replied, beginning to laugh again.
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But the thing that made Will laugh most was, that the very fellow who did it got his trousers burnt trying to put out the fire, and he asked the is it Faculty or President?
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Like cats they curve their backs, they purr inwardly with their approaching happiness,-- all good things laugh.
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And she was so un-hysterical and natural and childish that she brought him to his senses and he began to laugh at himself and a few minutes afterward she was sitting on her stool again telling him not what she imagined the secret garden to be like but what it really was, and Colin's aches and tiredness were forgotten and he was listening enraptured.
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It was a great while since D'Artagnan had laughed so long together.
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I haf seen dot beast throw himself back in his chair and laugh when Bertran haf made fun of me.
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Griffiths laughed, and Philip saw that Mildred noticed how white and regular his teeth were and how pleasant his smile.
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