10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LAUGH UP ONE'S SLEEVE»
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Les Bons Mots: How to Amaze Tout Le Monde with Everyday French
... translated as "laugh up one's sleeve," literally, "laugh in one's beard," and three
companion phrases, rire entre cuir et chair (rahntra kweer ray shair), also
translated as "laugh up one's sleeve," "laugh secretly," and "laugh to oneself,"
literally, ...
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Allen's Dictionary of English Phrases
'Iknew you had something up your sleeve!' See also an ACE up one's sleeve;
have a CARD up one's sleeve; LAUGH up one's sleeve; ROLL up one's sleeves;
wear one's HEART on one's sleeve. sleigh take somebody for a sleigh ride
informal ...
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New Horizons in English 1
2. i) to have a trick up one's sleeve - to hide something from someone, to have a
fall-back plan ii) to laugh up one's sleeve - to pretend to be sympathetic with
someone, yet being excited by their misfortune. iii) to roll up one's sleeves - to get
...
"(God) speed the plough" A wish for success in some undertaking. This
expression occurs in the fifteenth-century song "Plough Monday" (q.v.). To "laugh
up one's sleeve" This expression probably has a monastic origin. The large choir
dress, ...
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American Slang: Cultural Language Guide to Living in the USA
Laugh up one's sleeve/Laugh in one's sleeve: to be amused but not reveal it;
laugh unnoticed. We were laughing up our sleeves when the boss fell off his
chair at the meeting. Laugh (it) away: attempt to laugh to try to forget something or
cover ...
Joseph Melillo, Edward M. Melillo,
2004
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The Dictionary of Clich_s: A Word Lover's Guide to 4,000 ...
Later itwas sometimes put as laughing onthe wrong side of one's mouth. laugh
up one's sleeve, toTobe secretly amused. This term, originally laughing in one's
sleeve, alludes to concealing mirth by hiding one's face in the big loose sleeves
of ...
(unimportance) 643; set at naught, laugh in one's sleeve, laugh up one's sleeve,
snap one's fingers at, shrug one's shoulders, turn up one's nose at, pooh-pooh,
damn with faint praise" [Pope]; whistle at, sneer at; curl up one's lip, toss the head
, ...
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
Sleep with dates from the 1300s; sleep together was first recorded a century later.
sleeve 9 See CARD UP ONE'S SLEEVE; LAUGH UP ONE'S SLEEVE; ROLL UP
ONE'S SLEEVES; WEAR ONE's HEART ON ONE'S SLEEVE. sleight of hand ...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms
laugh up one's sleeve to laugh secretly: / had the feeling she was laughing up
her sieeve at something I didn 't understand. slice a slice of the cake (not formal)
a share of something valuable which has been gained: The company is now very
...
Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick, C. M. Schwarz,
1993
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English-Albanian Dictionary of Idioms
'It 's the most priceless joke I've ever heard. ' laugh till one's sides burst/shake/
split qesh sa me dhembin ijet □ / can imagine a group of men laughing till their
sides split. laugh up one's sleeve qesh nen hunde □ Although they didn 't dare ...