Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Turkish term or phrase:
ağlanacak haline gülmek
English translation:
Laugh at your misery
Turkish term
Türkiye
Works in: English to Turkish, Turkish to English
ağlanacak haline gülmek
Just want to know whether there is a true English idiom close in meaning.
Thanks.
Proposed translations
Türkiye
Expert biomedical scientist, Ph.D. (NYU)
Native in: Turkish 
Works in: English to Turkish, Turkish to English, Turkish, and 1 more.
Laugh at your misery
Laughter in my misery
Türkiye
General Texts, IT, Electronics& Military
Native in: Turkish (Variant: Standard-İstanbul ) 
Works in: English to Turkish, Turkish to English, English
not know whether to laugh or (to) cry
When the team lost the championship in the final seconds of the game, we didn't know whether to laugh or to cry.
I just found out all of my applications were rejected. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
United Kingdom
TURKISH ENGLISH Linguist
Native in: Turkish
Works in: English to Turkish, Turkish to English
to laugh in the face of adversity
United States
Meticulous, scrupulous, curious work!
Native in: Turkish (Variant: Standard-İstanbul )
Works in: Turkish to English, English to Turkish, French to Turkish, and 1 more.
to laugh at a situation to be cried
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Kim Metzger
: "a situation to be cried"? No such thing in English.
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Tim Drayton
: The clumsy, literal rendering you are searching for would read: "to laugh at a situation to be cried over" but nobody would say such a thing in English.
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Well, what is correct expression in use in English speaking 3 countries?
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