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fall about laughing

To be consumed by uncontrollable laughter. Primarily heard in UK. We all fell about laughing when the professor accidentally swore during his lecture. My brother-in-law's wicked sense of humor has us falling about laughing every time we hang out with him.

fall about (laughing/with laughter)

(British English, informal) laugh a lot: When he watches Charlie Chaplin films, he falls about laughing. I don’t find them funny at all!

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Getting in a taxi with the girls falling about laughing and saying to the taxi driver, 'Oh sorry, we know we're being annoying,' and him not disagreeing with you.

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The Copa America may have drained him but that reservation is outweighed by the fact Arsenal have offloaded Yaya Sanogo so Sanchez won't be falling about laughing every 10 minutes.

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Last month the show had audiences at St Helens' Theatre Royal falling about laughing.

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I HAVE been falling about laughing at your correspondent (Bet Davies) taking offence at the termwhite elephant being used to describe the Wales Millennium Centre.

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They have gone from looking puzzled at the first reading to falling about laughing as they have brought the script to life.

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The incident fairly brightened up the nightshift with everybody falling about laughing.

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But my outstanding memory of playing at the highest level is of falling about laughing inside Munich's Olympic Stadium.

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When I started talking about getting the side into this season's play-offs, people started falling about laughing.

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Fowler, Trevor Sinclair, Darren Purse and Joe Ledley were all involved - and they were falling about laughing as they tried to look professional playing football while they used their mobiles.

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Matthew Watt is a wonderful Bob, seducing the pair in a scene of bad sex which had the audience falling about laughing.