"laugh on the other side of one's face" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "laughs on the other side of one's face",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laughing on the other side of one's face",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laughed on the other side of one's face",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laughed on the other side of one's face",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "laugh on the other side of one's face (third-person singular simple present laughs on the other side of one's face, present participle laughing on the other side of one's face, simple past and past participle laughed on the other side of one's face)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "You'll be laughing on the other side of your face when the police find out you've been lying to them.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. II",
          "text": "Socialism? Ha! ha! ha! Where’s the money to come from? Ha! ha! ha!... Hitler will at any rate go down in history as the man who made the City of London laugh on the wrong side of its face. For the first time in their lives the comfortable were uncomfortable, the professional optimists had to admit that there was something wrong.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To experience discomfiture after displaying cockiness."
      ],
      "id": "en-laugh_on_the_other_side_of_one's_face-en-verb-BeKoPH5C",
      "links": [
        [
          "discomfiture",
          "discomfiture"
        ],
        [
          "cockiness",
          "cockiness"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, intransitive, informal) To experience discomfiture after displaying cockiness."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "have the last laugh"
        },
        {
          "word": "he who laughs last laughs best"
        },
        {
          "word": "talk"
        },
        {
          "word": "speak out of both sides of one's mouth"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "laugh on the other side of one's mouth"
        },
        {
          "word": "laugh on the wrong side of one's face"
        },
        {
          "word": "laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth"
        },
        {
          "word": "laugh out of the other side of one's face"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "US"
          ],
          "word": "laugh out of the other side of one's mouth"
        },
        {
          "word": "laugh out of the wrong side of one's face"
        },
        {
          "word": "laugh out of the wrong side of one's mouth"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "informal",
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "hymy hyytyy"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "faire moins le malin"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "gáire Sheáin dóite a dhéanamh"
        },
        {
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "pēc lieliem smiekliem nāk gaužas asaras"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "laugh on the other side of one's face"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "laughs on the other side of one's face",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laughing on the other side of one's face",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laughed on the other side of one's face",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laughed on the other side of one's face",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "laugh on the other side of one's face (third-person singular simple present laughs on the other side of one's face, present participle laughing on the other side of one's face, simple past and past participle laughed on the other side of one's face)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "have the last laugh"
    },
    {
      "word": "he who laughs last laughs best"
    },
    {
      "word": "talk"
    },
    {
      "word": "speak out of both sides of one's mouth"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "You'll be laughing on the other side of your face when the police find out you've been lying to them.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. II",
          "text": "Socialism? Ha! ha! ha! Where’s the money to come from? Ha! ha! ha!... Hitler will at any rate go down in history as the man who made the City of London laugh on the wrong side of its face. For the first time in their lives the comfortable were uncomfortable, the professional optimists had to admit that there was something wrong.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To experience discomfiture after displaying cockiness."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "discomfiture",
          "discomfiture"
        ],
        [
          "cockiness",
          "cockiness"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, intransitive, informal) To experience discomfiture after displaying cockiness."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "informal",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "laugh on the other side of one's mouth"
    },
    {
      "word": "laugh on the wrong side of one's face"
    },
    {
      "word": "laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth"
    },
    {
      "word": "laugh out of the other side of one's face"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "word": "laugh out of the other side of one's mouth"
    },
    {
      "word": "laugh out of the wrong side of one's face"
    },
    {
      "word": "laugh out of the wrong side of one's mouth"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "hymy hyytyy"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "faire moins le malin"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "gáire Sheáin dóite a dhéanamh"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "pēc lieliem smiekliem nāk gaužas asaras"
    }
  ],
  "word": "laugh on the other side of one's face"
}