单词 | to split one's sides |
释义 | > as lemmasto split (also break, burst, etc.) one's sides P6. to split (also break, burst, etc.) one's sides and variants: to be convulsed with laughter; to laugh heartily or uncontrollably. Also to split a person's sides and variants: to cause a person to go into convulsions of laughter.In quot. 1598 perhaps with allusion to sense 4. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > laugh in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > laugh convulsively or immoderately chuckle1598 to split (also break, burst, etc.) one's sides1598 to die with, or of laughing1609 to hold one's sides1609 to laugh till (also until) one cries1611 split1688 to burst one's sides1712 shake1729 to shake one's sides1736 to laugh oneself sick (also silly)1773 roll1819 to laugh one's head off1871 to break up1895 to fall about1918 pee1946 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. x. sig. H3 O I am great with mirth, some midwifrie, Or I shall breake my sides at vanitie. 1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 108 Laugh & spare not So't be in priuate, burst thy sides with laughter. 1660 J. Bellamy tr. Origen Against Celsus ii. xxxi. 150 The pretended Jew goes on, and is ready to split his Sides with Laughing, at the Earth-quake. 1704 T. Brown Cal. Reform'd in Duke of Buckingham et al. Misc. Wks. 230 You'd break a Man's sides with Laughing. 1705 C. Cibber Careless Husband iii. 35 Seeing us ready to split our sides in laughing at nothing, ha! ha! 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses iii. 13 You would have burst your sides to hear him talk Politicks. 1821 W. Hazlitt Table-talk I. xvi. 379 A fashionable Miss titters till she is ready to burst her sides at the uncouth shape of a bonnet. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. li. 83 Tom Scott..bade fair to split his sides with laughing. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. iv. [Calypso] 62 Break your neck and we'll break our sides. 1925 Princeton Alumni Weekly 18 Feb. 450/1 Unbelievable and original surprises are being prepared to delight your hearts and split your sides. 1953 J. M. Brewer Word on Brazos 66 Dey gonna..crack dey sides laffin' when..de ghostes staa'ts to comin' in. 2014 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 27 June 11 The viewing millions..who simply want to split their sides at the sight of a man in drag falling over and showing his knickers. < as lemmas |
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