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Phrase(s): A rich man’s joke is always funny.
Prov. Everyone wants to curry favor with rich people and so will always laugh at their jokes. (From a poem by Thomas Edward Brown.) • We all thought that Mr. Lisle was a narrowminded, unpleasant old man, but we were careful to act otherwise, because he was wealthy. A rich man’s joke is always funny.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs