BBC Question Time Audience Bursts Out Laughing At Richard Tice's Take On Climate Change
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burst out laughing
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burst out laughing
To start laughing suddenly or uncontrollably.
The kids burst out laughing when the clown fell down on stage.
I couldn't help but burst out laughing when Carl ripped his pants trying to do those ridiculous dance moves.
See also: burst, laugh, out
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burst out laughing
to begin to laugh suddenly. The entire audience burst out laughing when the clown took a fall. Every time I think of you sitting there with a lap full of spaghetti, I burst out laughing.
See also: burst, laugh, out
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burst into laughter
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in stitches
Laughing very hard, to the point that one cannot control it.
Jerry is the funniest guy I know. He can have you in stitches in a matter of minutes.
I was in stitches at that comedy show. I could barely breathe it was so funny.
See also: stitch
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in stitches
Fig. laughing very hard. Charlie had us in stitches with all his jokes. The movie sure was funny. I was in stitches!
See also: stitch
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
in stitches
Laughing uncontrollably, as in Joke after joke had me in stitches. Although the precise idiom dates only from about 1930, Shakespeare had a similar expression in Twelfth Night (3:2): "If you desire the spleen, and will laugh yourselves into stitches, follow me." Stitches here refers to the sharp local pain (known as a stitch in the side) that can make one double over, much as a fit of laughter can.
See also: stitch
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in stitches INFORMAL
If you are in stitches, you are laughing a lot. It was so funny — we were in stitches. Note: You can also say that you have someone in stitches, meaning that you make them laugh a lot. Thea had us in stitches with her tales of her family.
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Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2012
in stitches laughing uncontrollably. informal
Stitch, in the sense of ‘a sudden localized jabbing pain’, such as might be caused by a needle, is recorded in Old English. It is now generally used of a muscle spasm in the side caused especially by exertion. Shakespeare seems to have been the first to describe stitches brought on by laughter; in Twelfth Night ( 1601 ) Maria invites her fellow conspirators to observe the lovelorn Malvolio with the words: ‘If you…will laugh yourselves into stitches, follow me’.
1981 D. M. Thomas The White Hotel She had them in stitches with her absurd—but true— anecdotes.
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in ;stitches (informal) laughing a lot: The film had the audience in stitches.
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in stitches Informal
Laughing uncontrollably.
See also: stitch
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in stitches
Overcome with laughter. This expression, which in this precise form dates from about 1930, uses stitches in the sense of “a stitch in the side,” that is, uncontrollable laughter can actually make one’s sides hurt. Shakespeare used a version of it in Twelfth Night (3.2): “If you desire the spleen, and will laugh yourselves into stitches, follow me.”
See also: stitch
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sleeve
be laughing up (one's) sleeve
be laughing up your sleeve
pick up stitches
bust out laughing
rolling on the floor laughing
be laughing (one's) head off
be laughing your head off
laughing in the aisles
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LOL
exclamation
used to draw attention to a joke or amusing statement, or to express amusement:
"I love how you said “coffee is not my cup of tea.” LOL!"
verb
laugh audibly or be amused:
"I literally LOL'd when the updates popped up";·;"I was LOLing at the teeny tiny little sign"
Translate LOL to German
lol
zum Schiessen sein
Bedeutung:
sehr komisch S / zum Lachen S / lustig sein S
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umgangssprachlich
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noun
laughing stock (noun)
a person or thing subjected to general mockery or ridicule:
"I'd be the laughingstock of the school";·;"a baseball team that is the laughing stock of the major leagues"
Similar:
figure of fun
dupe
butt
fool
joke
standing joke
stooge
fair game
victim
Aunt Sally
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