"the joke is on someone" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1923, The Poultry Item, page 31",
          "text": "As only a small per cent of the dealers use the word \"Leghorn,\" and the ones who do try to use it can't tell a Leghorn from a mixed breed or from many other breeds, the most of the joke is on someone else.",
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          "text": "“Guess what? The joke's on you because I'm going places, getting out of this nowhere town.”",
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        "(idiomatic) Someone is the butt of a joke or is experiencing a negative outcome, especially if that person was trying to make someone else the butt of the joke or subject them to the negative outcome."
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