split one's sides

Language: en

Meaning: Tolaughhysterically.Synonyms:laugh one's head off,roll in the aisles1922February,James Joyce, “[Episode 13]”, inUlysses, Paris:Shakespeare and Company,[…],→OCLC:Madcap Ciss with her golliwog curls. You had to laugh at her sometimes. For instance when she asked you would you have some more Chinese tea and jaspberry ram and when she drew the jugs too and the men's faces on her nails with red ink make yousplit your sides[…]1988, “Mayhem Maybe”, inIan Anderson(music),20 Years of Jethro Tull, performed byJethro Tull:And we sat and watched the women hideLaughed so much wesplit our sidesScattered horses that they would rideMayhem in the high degree.

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