the joke is on someone

Meaning: (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.1923,The Poultry Item, page31: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 ofthe joke is on someone else.2015, Randy Laist,Cinema of Simulation: Hyperreal Hollywood in the Long 1990s, Bloomsbury Publishing USA,→ISBN, page232:Like Cole, we see through the penny-trick instantly, butthe joke is on us, andon Malcolm himself, because we fall for the same joke on the level of the film as a whole.2015, Lia Riley,Last First Kiss: A Brightwater Novel, HarperCollins,→ISBN:“Guess what?The joke's on youbecause I'm going places, getting out of this nowhere town.”2016, E. C. Eliott,Kemlo and the Purple Dawn, Gateway,→ISBN:"Well,the joke's on youbecause I'm resigning from the gymnast team. And if I resign, so will my friends, particularly when I tell them why."

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