See laugh in one's sleeve on Wiktionary
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"text": "Nixon boastfully called the seven days he spent on the Chinese mainland \"the week that changed the world\"–without, however, specifying whether the change was for the better or for the worse. The way he humbled himself before Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai reminded me of the tribute-bearing foreign emissaries of the previous centuries who went to Peking to pay homage at the Chinese Imperial Court. Nixon's hosts must have laughed in their sleeves at his behavior during their meetings.",
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"to laugh in secret or to oneself, usually gloatingly"
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"(US, Canada, idiomatic) to laugh in secret or to oneself, usually gloatingly"
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"word": "laugh up one's sleeve"
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"code": "ca",
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"sense": "laugh secretly",
"word": "riure per sota el nas"
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"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "tau¹ siu³",
"sense": "laugh secretly",
"word": "偷笑"
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"sense": "laugh secretly",
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"sense": "laugh secretly",
"word": "in zijn vuistje lachen"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "laugh secretly",
"word": "nauraa itsekseen"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "laugh secretly",
"word": "nauraa salaa"
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"sense": "laugh secretly",
"word": "rire dans sa barbe"
},
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "laugh secretly",
"word": "rire sous cape"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "laugh secretly",
"word": "sich ins Fäustchen lachen"
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"sense": "laugh secretly",
"word": "ridere sotto i baffi"
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"sense": "laugh secretly",
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"word": "śmiać się w kułak"
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"sense": "laugh secretly",
"word": "râde în barbă"
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "laugh secretly",
"word": "râde pe sub mustață"
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"note": "смея́ться в кула́к impf (smejátʹsja v kulák, literally “to laugh in one's fist”)",
"sense": "laugh secretly"
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"sense": "laugh secretly",
"word": "bıyık altından gülmek"
},
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"sense": "laugh secretly",
"word": "lusmilön kläno"
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"sense": "laugh secretly",
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"sense": "laugh secretly",
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"sense": "laugh secretly",
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"sense": "laugh secretly",
"word": "sich ins Fäustchen lachen"
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"sense": "laugh secretly",
"word": "ridere sotto i baffi"
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"word": "śmiać się w kułak"
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"sense": "laugh secretly",
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"sense": "laugh secretly"
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"sense": "laugh secretly",
"word": "bıyık altından gülmek"
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"sense": "laugh secretly",
"word": "lusmilön kläno"
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"word": "laugh in one's sleeve"
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