🤣 Splitting Your Sides: Laugh Until It Hurts! 😂
In the grand theater of language, where words dance and meanings play hide and seek, nothing brings the house down quite like laughter. And when it comes to phrases about having a laugh, “splitting your sides” takes center stage.
To be convulsed with amusement — now there’s an image, right? This sort of shaking is much more violent than trembling with fear or cold, causing one to “hold one’s sides,” i.e., to double over. Even John Milton, in his 1635 poem L’Allegro, called upon this vivid imagery: “Laughter holding both his sides.”
Other Hilarious Idioms to Ticklean Your Funny Bone:
- Split one’s sides: Laugh uncontrollably.
- In stitches: Also laugh so much it hurts.
- Cracking up: Begin to laugh hysterically.
- Bursting with laughter: To laugh so hard you feel like you’re going to explode.
- Dying of laughter: Extreme laughter; feeling like it’s hard to breathe because you’re laughing so much.
Synonyms:
- Cackle
- Giggle
- Chuckle
- Guffaw
- Snicker
Antonyms:
- Cry
- Sob
- Weep
- Seriousness
- Solemnity
Humor-Filled Quotes:
- “Laughter is an instant vacation.” — Milton Berle
- “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” — E.E. Cummings
- “Laughter is wine for the soul—laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness—the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.” — Seán O’Casey
Proverbs and Related Expressions:
- “Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.”
- “He who laughs last, laughs best.”
- “Laugher is the best medicine.”
- “A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.”
From Literature to Movies:
- Books: “Three Men in a Boat” by Jerome K. Jerome, “The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde
- Movies: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Airplane!
- Songs: “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” by Bobby McFerrin, “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” from Monty Python’s Life of Brian
- Poetry: “A Child’s Garden of Verses” by Robert Louis Stevenson, Poems by Spike Milligan
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In the end, while laughter may feel like it’s splitting our sides, it actually connects us, lifting our spirits and sometimes convincing us that life’s little annoyances are just punchlines in the grand cosmic joke. So, here’s to laughter, the universal language of joy!
The End By L.M. Chuckleworthy, 2023-10-02
