| 词组 | break up |
| 释义 | break up The most recent sense of break up—"to laugh or cause to laugh uncontrollably"—is reported by Copperud 1970 as stigmatized as slang. The expression seems originally to have been show-business lingo and to have gradually worked its way into more general circulation. The meaning was not in general use early enough to have been included in Webster's Third. We do have some citations taken from interviews with entertainers, but none of our evidence seems particularly slangy. • It broke me up. I laughed so hard that I was punished ... for disrupting the class —Art Garfunkel, quoted in N.Y. Times Mag., 13 Oct. 1968 • Between pants, he giggles a little, then a lot. Then he breaks up completely, laughing himself into a coughing fit —Gene Williams, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 1965 • ... on this particular night one of the chickens nosedived into the pit, landed on the timpani, then raced around among the orchestra. The musicians broke up, they couldn't play for giggling —Robert Daley, Cosmopolitan, July 1972 • He can write piercingly acute descriptive passages and comic scenes that break you up —L. E. Sissman, New Yorker, 11 Sept. 1971 |
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