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in stitches en · ADP

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) Laughing vigorously; very amused; aching due to convulsive laughter.
    • I took a graduate seminar in close-reading of Dylan Thomas and Joyce, and among the smart students a nun and a rabbi kept us in stitches with their endless whimsy and scholarship. 2004, Willis Barnstone, We Jews and Blacks, →ISBN, page 59:
    • Leaving the White House after a unilateral chat with Coolidge, Actress Barrymore, in stitches from laughter, was confronted by perplexed newsmen wondering what was so funny. 1955 May 15, “People”, in Time:
    • "I was just dancing with old Doctor Riley, and he kept me in stitches. Half the time he had almost to carry me around, I was laughing so." 1918, Laura Lee Hope, chapter 15, in The Outdoor Girls in Army Service:

Relateds

stitch

Synonyms

in hysterics

Translations (6)

ga in arraingeacha (laughing vigorously) · fr plié en deux (laughing vigorously) · fr plié en quatre (laughing vigorously) · fi kippurassa (laughing vigorously) · fr plié (laughing vigorously) · fr mort de rire (laughing vigorously)