laugh all the way to the bank

present singular third person laughs all the way to the bank · participle present laughing all the way to the bank · participle past laughed all the way to the bank · past laughed all the way to the bank

1. idiomaticintransitiveTo make a large income easily, especially at the expense of others or by doing something that lacks significant merit or effort.

   Who cares if he's not funny? The venture capitalists behind Twitter will be laughing all the way to the bank.

   2009 September 16, “Twitter's Popularity: Users Love Stupid Content”, in Newsweek, retrieved 13 Apr 2015

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   Ivan Boesky laughed all the way to the bank, as did Milken, as do most people who commit clever, non-violent crimes and fraudulently enrich themselves.

   1994, Taki, Nothing to Declare: A Memoir, →ISBN, page 212

   George Bancroft stars as ruthless stock manipulator Jim Bradford, who plays his customers for suckers and laughs all the way to the bank.

   2010, Hal Erickson, “The Wolf of Wall Street (1929)”, in New York Times: Movies, retrieved 13 Apr 2015