Meaning of in stitches | Babel Free

Definitions

Laughing vigorously; very amused; aching due to convulsive laughter.

idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“"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."”

“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.”

“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.”

CEFR level