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What does jokes on you mean?
What does jokes on you mean?
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- English (US)
"the joke is on you"
It refers to "person A", who tried to make "person B" look foolish, when, instead, it makes "person A" look foolish.
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- Spanish (Spain)
@comosedice so can I say.
he was trying to get me caught by the police but jokes on him he ended up arrested
he was trying to get me caught by the police but jokes on him he ended up arrested
- English (US)
Jokes on you means, that you tried to play a joke on someone or but it happened to you instead
- English (US)
@HDGD Exactly. (...joke's on him..., to be grammatically correct)
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