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DictionarySeesplitsplit one's sides
split (one's) sidesTo laugh uproariously or hysterically. Your jokes are perfect for your speech tonight. You'll have them splitting their sides!See also: side, splitsplit one's sidesAlso, laugh one's head off. Be extremely amused, laugh uproariously. For example, That comedian had us splitting our sides, or Jane laughed her head off when she saw Rob's costume. The first of these hyperbolic terms dates from about 1700. See also: side, split split one's sides To laugh heartily.See also: side, splitsplit one's sides, toTo laugh uproariously. This hyperbole dates from the seventeenth century. Thomas Brown used it in Saints in Uproar (1687): “You’d break a man’s sides with laughing.” The word “split” came into use somewhat later. Dickens used it in The Old Curiosity Shop (1840), “He bade fair to split his sides with laughing,” and Harriet Beecher Stowe in Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), “I laughed fit to split.” See also shake with laughter.See also: split |