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laugh all the way to the bank



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Also, cried all the way to the bank . Exult in a financial gain from something that had either been derided or thought worthless. For example, You may not think much of this comedian, but he's laughing all the way to the bank . Despite the seeming difference between laugh and cry , the two terms are virtually synonymous, the one with cry being used ironically and laugh straightforwardly. [c. 1960]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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