laugh a minute very funny: it's a laugh a minute when Lois gets together with her dad. # laugh out of the other side of one's mouth be discomfited after feeling satisfaction or confidence about something: you'd be laughing out the other side of your mouth if we were sitting in jail right now. # laugh someone/something out of court dismiss with contempt as being obviously ridiculous. # laugh oneself silly (or sick) laugh uncontrollably or for a long time. # laugh something to scorn DATED ridicule something. # laugh up one's sleeve be secretly or inwardly amused. # no laughing matter something serious that should not be joked about: heavy snoring is no laughing matter. # play something for laughs (of a performer) try to arouse laughter in an