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split one's sides
Idioms and Phrases
Also, 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.Example Sentences
Split′ting, very severe: very rapid.—Split on a rock, to meet some unforeseen and disastrous difficulty, to go to ruin; Split one's sides, to laugh immoderately; Split the difference, to divide equally the sum or matter in dispute, to take the mean.
Heidt's friends, too, proved most entertaining company, especially the one who, it appeared, was a poet; he had a store of anecdotes to make one split one's sides with laughing, and Heidt himself was in high spirits.
The poor little rocking-chair over in the corner was in reality a mere attempt at a rocking-chair; with the smallest sense of humour, one might easily split one's sides with laughter at it.
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