caerse de risa

USAGE NOTE
This idiom may be literally translated as "to fall of laughter."
caerse de risa
An intransitive verb phrase is a phrase that combines a verb with a preposition or other particle and does not require a direct object (e.g., Everybody please stand up.).
intransitive verb phrase
1.
A word or phrase that is commonly used in conversational speech (e.g., skinny, grandma).
(colloquial)
An idiom is a phrase with a meaning different from the literal meaning of the separate words that make it up (e.g., break a leg).
(idiom)
(to laugh a lot)
a. to die laughing
A word or phrase that is commonly used in conversational speech (e.g., skinny, grandma).
(colloquial)
An idiom is a phrase with a meaning different from the literal meaning of the separate words that make it up (e.g., break a leg).
(idiom)
Me caigo de risa siempre que Antonio cuenta un chiste. ¡Es tan gracioso!I die laughing whenever Antonio tells a joke. He's so funny!
b. to laugh one's head off
A word or phrase that is commonly used in conversational speech (e.g., skinny, grandma).
(colloquial)
An idiom is a phrase with a meaning different from the literal meaning of the separate words that make it up (e.g., break a leg).
(idiom)
Los niños se caían de risa con las gracias de los payasos.The kids were laughing their heads off at the clowns' antics.
c. to split one's sides
A word or phrase that is commonly used in conversational speech (e.g., skinny, grandma).
(colloquial)
An idiom is a phrase with a meaning different from the literal meaning of the separate words that make it up (e.g., break a leg).
(idiom)
Regionalism used in the United Kingdom
(United Kingdom)
Yo me puse colorado como un tomate, y mis amigos se caían de risa.I went as red as a beetroot, and my friends were splitting their sides.
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