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shake with laughter
Idioms and Phrases
Convulse with the humor of something, as in When asked if he was planning to give away the bride, he shook with laughter at the very thought . [Early 1700s]Example Sentences
Dad started to shake with laughter, and the crowd started laughing, too.
The film, which was directed by Josh Cooley, who co-wrote and storyboarded Pixar's emotional hit Inside Out, also made the newspaper's reviewer "shake with laughter at least once every five minutes".
Norris’s shoulders shake with laughter when he is shown the quotes from Rome.
They certainly leapt at every chance to shake with laughter, which luckily happened often as the seven varied illusionists of this touring show — a brief Broadway hit already this winter — bantered with volunteers from the audience.
“One American can relish hugely the entertainment afforded when one quizzical Englishman chaffs his shy, ineloquent countrymen without expecting all other Americans to shake with laughter at the same spectacle,” Woollcott wrote.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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