die laughing
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die laughing (third-person singular simple present dies laughing, present participle dying laughing, simple past and past participle died laughing)
(informal) To laugh uproariously.
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The British officer uses the joke to escape as his German captors die laughing, with one German officer (Cleese) uttering a Woody Woodpecker -style laugh before expiring.
After opening with Stop It You're Killing Me from Troublegum, Therapy? raced straight into Still Hurts before returning to the mid-1990s for Die Laughing.
The joke is then used in open warfare, with Tommies running through an open field amid artillery fire shouting the joke at the Germans, who die laughing in response.