Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Idioms 309. The title of the idiom today is to be
laughing all the way to the bank. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. If we
say that someone is laughing all the way to the bank , we mean that someone is
making a lot of money or profiting a lot by doing something, especially from
something that others may think is ridiculous, stupid, undesirable or one way
or another objectionable. So for some reason another they don't like it and
but still they're making a lot of money. So they say well even though you think
it's stupid or even though you think it's ridiculous. Hey look at all the
money. They're making they're laughing all the way to the bank. Okay. Let's
continue. This phrase could be used in the opposite way. When someone
unexpectedly loses a lot of money or didn't heed warnings or advice and that
caused them to lose a considerable amount of money. In this case we say that
one is crying all the way to the bank. Yeah. So you could hear that if somebody was
writing about it , they would say well they didn't listen to the warnings, now that
crying all the way to the bank. So we could go both ways.
You're laughing all the way to the bank when you make a lot of money and you're
crying all the way to the bank when you lose a lot of money. All right. Let's
continue here. Let's kind of look at the origin. They say the first citing of
this phrase was in 1908. So it's more than a hundred years old now. It was in a
book called "Peter a Novel of Which He is Not the Hero' by Francis Hopkinson.
However, a quote by the famous pianist and singer Liberace remember he was a
famous piano player helped to popularize this phrase. Many critics criticized his
music. Well at least in the early days. And his response was "Your cruel remarks
made me so unhappy I cried all the way to the bank" Now he kind of mixed it up. He
was being sarcastic and he mixed it up. Even though, he said
I cried all the way to the bank, he was being sarcastic. Meaning that he made a
lot of money. So even though you said terrible things about me, like what do
you know about music ? The people liked it. They bought my music and he was kind of
trying to make a joke out of it. So he kind of mixed it up. But it still helped
to popularize that and the phrase and then it was used both ways. Okay. So let's
look. We have three examples of how we might hear it used today. Many questioned
and criticized early investors in Bitcoin or maybe even other
cryptocurrencies as well. However , after it's surging rise. After it
went up really really high and it did this several times. Several times it went
really high. Then came back down. Went up again. Came back down. But each time it
went up. It had higher highs and it also had higher lows. It never really went
back down to the low it was before. So still criticized.... Yeah. So they are
laughing all the way to the bank. So even though a lot of people criticized them
and questioned them. Now they are laughing all the way the bank. If they were one of
those early investors, you know they probably just put $1,000 into it or
several hundred and they could become like millionaires. They're laughing all
the way to the bank. All right. Number two. many critics criticized the real-life
version of 'The Lion King ' movie but due to its box-office success
Disney is laughing all the way to the bank. So even though the critics didn't
like it and we see this with a lot of movies , sometimes the critics don't like
something but hey did very well at the box office. They made a lot of money from
it. So they're laughing all the way to the bank. Even though the critics said
bad things about it. Okay. And number three here. After that storm whipped out
homes in that area, home insurers are crying all the way to the bank.
You know, because maybe they insured a lot of these homes and now they
destroyed. Now they're going to have to pay out a lot of money to a lot of these
people that had insurance. Okay. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it is clear. I hope it is
informative. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.