Expressões com a palavra LAUGH

You probably know the word laugh. It can be used both as a noun and a verb depending on the context. You can say you laugh funny, but you can also say you have a funny laugh. Laughing is a very healthy activity and everybody should practice it as often as possible because after all laughing is the best medicine. In other words, laughing is often helpful for healing, especially emotional healing.

Speaking of which, laughing is something you tend to do more often if you're surrounded by funny people. Everybody has a friend who likes to tell jokes, amuse everybody around. For those people you could say they're a laugh a minute, because as the idiom suggests they're able to make people laugh every single minute.

Changing of subject, everybody knows the world keeps on turning round and round, and I sure don't mean it literally. Nobody's got 100% guarantee of success all the time because life has its ups and downs. One minute you're on top of the world and the next minute you are at the bottom of the mountain. After some setbacks, for example, some people that end up with the advantage in a situation can say they had the last laugh. It's not like taking revenge at someone by showing them you're the boss now, but only a way of expressing you're finally back on track.

As opposed to our previous idiom, the next one expresses a little bit of bitterness. If I were you I would be nice with people around and never treat them badly. But let's suppose you didn't take my advise and did something bad or unfair to someone else that by the way made you feel extremely satisfied at the time. The problem is that as I said previously the world keeps on turning around and the person you hurt decided to get revenge. After getting revenge, he might turn to you and say: He who laughs last laughs best. That means it's him now who feels the greatest pleasure. After all revenge is best tasted cold.

If you're a very discreet person, you might identify yourself with the next idiom with the word laugh. It might be cruel, but sometimes you may want to laugh at a situation or even someone without them knowing. Maybe you're at a party and realize two women have appeared with the same dress. It's a funny situation and you want to laugh at it without offending anyone. So you laugh up your sleeve, which means to laugh at someone secretly.

Talking about laughing secretly at people made me remember of bullying, which is something made not exactly secretly I must say. People sometimes cross the line and even deaths can be caused. It's really no laughing matter, and that means it's a very serious topic and should be taken as a major threat, not just child's play.

To talk about our last idiom, I remembered I have an aunt that's very easily amused. She can watch the same comedy movie a hundred times, she'll laugh as hard as the very first time because she can simply laugh at anything. I could say she laughs to see a pudding crawl, which means exactly what I just said: Someone you won't find serious at any time of the day. They laugh at anything.

Fonte: http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/search.php?p=0&q=laugh