- 1v/læf/ · /lɑːf/laugh up your sleeve暗自竊笑；偷笑
口語To feel secretly happy or pleased about something, without showing it to other people.
「laugh up your sleeve」字面是「在你的袖子裡笑」——sleeve 是袖子。以前衣服袖子很寬，把臉藏進袖子就能偷偷笑而不被看見。所以這句指「心裡覺得好笑或得意，但故意不表現出來」，常帶點「偷偷得意」的味道。
示範例句 · Example
She kept a straight face, but I knew she was laughing up her sleeve.
中文翻譯她板著一張臉，但我知道她在袖子裡偷笑。