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The final scene of the movie "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" will leave you in stitches ... "
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in stitches
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in stitches
Laughing very hard, to the point that one cannot control it.
Jerry is the funniest guy I know. He can have you in stitches in a matter of minutes.
I was in stitches at that comedy show. I could barely breathe it was so funny.
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in stitches
Fig. laughing very hard. Charlie had us in stitches with all his jokes. The movie sure was funny. I was in stitches!
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

in stitches
Laughing uncontrollably, as in Joke after joke had me in stitches. Although the precise idiom dates only from about 1930, Shakespeare had a similar expression in Twelfth Night (3:2): "If you desire the spleen, and will laugh yourselves into stitches, follow me." Stitches here refers to the sharp local pain (known as a stitch in the side) that can make one double over, much as a fit of laughter can.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

in stitches INFORMAL
If you are in stitches, you are laughing a lot. It was so funny — we were in stitches. Note: You can also say that you have someone in stitches, meaning that you make them laugh a lot. Thea had us in stitches with her tales of her family.
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Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2012
in stitches laughing uncontrollably. informal
Stitch, in the sense of ‘a sudden localized jabbing pain’, such as might be caused by a needle, is recorded in Old English. It is now generally used of a muscle spasm in the side caused especially by exertion. Shakespeare seems to have been the first to describe stitches brought on by laughter; in Twelfth Night ( 1601 ) Maria invites her fellow conspirators to observe the lovelorn Malvolio with the words: ‘If you…will laugh yourselves into stitches, follow me’.
1981 D. M. Thomas The White Hotel She had them in stitches with her absurd—but true— anecdotes.
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017
in ;stitches (informal) laughing a lot: The film had the audience in stitches.
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017
in stitches Informal
Laughing uncontrollably.
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

in stitches
Overcome with laughter. This expression, which in this precise form dates from about 1930, uses stitches in the sense of “a stitch in the side,” that is, uncontrollable laughter can actually make one’s sides hurt. Shakespeare used a version of it in Twelfth Night (3.2): “If you desire the spleen, and will laugh yourselves into stitches, follow me.”
See also: stitch
The Dictionary of Clich;s by Christine Ammer Copyright © 2013 by Christine Ammer

See also:
sleeve
be laughing up (one's) sleeve
be laughing up your sleeve
pick up stitches
bust out laughing
rolling on the floor laughing
be laughing (one's) head off
be laughing your head off
laughing in the aisles

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LOL

or lol

interjection
laughing out loud; laugh out loud: used as a response to something funny or as a follow-up to something said only as a joke:
You can see from the pics that my dog did not appreciate how we dressed him up for Halloween this year. LOL!

verb (used without object)LOLed, LOL·ing.
to laugh:
I literally LOLed when I got your text.
I can’t stop loling over this dumb video!

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1. Eintrag:

bis der Arzt kommt


Bedeutung:
uebermaessig S ; reichlich S ; ;ber einen langen Zeitraum hinweg S ; bis zum ;berdruss S ; in extremer Weise S
Beispiele:
Es darf gefeiert, geschunkelt und gelacht werden, bis der Arzt kommt!
Pokern, bis der Arzt kommt - Pokerclub stellte neuen Weltrekord auf
Hier k;nnen Sie kostenlos spielen, bis der Arzt kommt
Etwas Neues lernen, lachen bis der Arzt kommt, einen Rekord brechen – Lanie Howard hat viele unerf;llte W;nsche
F;hren Sie Ihren Gegner auf d;nnes Eis! Spielen Sie den Unverstandenen! Und wenn all das nichts hilft: Labern Sie los, bis der Arzt kommt!
Seit Viagra die Welt beherrscht, wollen auch die 80j;hrigen an frischem Fleisch herumdoktern, bis der Arzt kommt
Per Mausklick kann der begabte Single seine Aktienpakete weltweit verschieben und mit anderen Teilnehmern des Weltmarkts kommunizieren, bis der Arzt kommt
Hier hat einer sublimiert, bis der Arzt kommt: Selten war Brahms ergreifender als in dieser Interpretation

Erg;nzungen / Herkunft:
umgangssprachlich; Urspr;nglich meint dieser Nebensatz "etwas in so extremer Weise tun, dass es nicht gesund ist", also der Arzt kommen muss. Es bezieht sich typischerweise auf ungesunde Lebensweise wie z. B. ;berm;;igen Alkoholgenuss. Im Lauf der 1990er Jahre gewann der Ausdruck redensartlichen Charakter mit der verallgemeinerten Bedeutung ";berm;;ig, ausgiebig, viel" und enth;lt zwar oft noch die negative Nebenbedeutung "sch;dlich, ungesund", kann aber auch salopp-scherzhaft auf andere - auch positive - Handlungen (h;ufig: feiern, tanzen, lachen) bezogen werden.

So schreibt schon die Rhein-Zeitung 1996: "Am Abend hie; die musikalische Vorgabe von 'Block Buster': 'Rocken bis der Arzt kommt'" Q
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 American comedy film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer with a story and screenplay by William Rose and Tania Rose. The film, starring Spencer Tracy with an all-star cast of comedians, is about the madcap pursuit of $350,000 (about 3.5 millions in today's money) in stolen cash by a diverse and colorful group of strangers. It premiered on November 7, 1963.[3] The principal cast features Edie Adams, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Dorothy Provine, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, and Jonathan Winters.

The film marked the first time Kramer directed a comedy, though he had produced the comedy So This Is New York in 1948. He is best known for producing and directing, in his own words, "heavy drama" about social problems, such as The Defiant Ones, Inherit the Wind, Judgment at Nuremberg, and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. His first attempt at directing a comedy film paid off immensely as It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World became a critical and commercial success in 1963 and was nominated for six Academy Awards, winning for Best Sound Editing, and two Golden Globe Awards.

Against Kramer's wishes, the film suffered severe cuts by its distributor United Artists in order to give the film a shorter running time for its general release. On October 15, 2013, it was announced that the Criterion Collection had collaborated with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists, and film restoration expert Robert A. Harris to reconstruct and restore It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World to be as close as possible to the original 202-minute version envisioned by Kramer. It was released in a five-disc "Dual Format" Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack on January 21, 2014.[4][5]

The film featured at number 40 in the American Film Institute's list 100 Years...100 Laughs.


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Plot
Robber "Smiler" Grogan, a just-released convict, escapes police surveillance but crashes his car on California State Route 74. Five motorists stop to help him: Melville Crump, a dentist on a second honeymoon with his wife Monica; Lennie Pike, a furniture mover; Ding Bell and Benjy Benjamin, two friends on their way to Las Vegas; and J. Russell Finch, a seaweed-business owner, traveling with his wife Emmeline and his mother-in-law Mrs. Marcus. Just before he dies, Grogan tells them about $350,000 he buried in Santa Rosita State Park under "a big W". After the group fails to come up with a satisfactory way to split the money, they give up negotiating and begin a mad dash to find it. Unbeknownst to all, Captain Culpeper, chief of detectives of the Santa Rosita Police Department, who had been working the Grogan case for years, has everyone tracked.

All the motorists experience setbacks on the way to the park. The Crumps charter a rickety biplane to Santa Rosita. While stopping in a hardware store for supplies, they get locked in the store's basement. After several attempts to break out, they blow out the wall of the basement with dynamite and hire a cab to get to the park. Bell and Benjamin charter a modern plane, but when their alcoholic pilot knocks himself out, they have to land the plane themselves. Flying wildly out of control, they cause chaos among the air traffic controllers. After bringing the plane to the ground, they also hire a cab to drive them to the park. The Finches' car collides with Pike's furniture van, and Russell persuades British Army Lieutenant Colonel J. Algernon Hawthorne to drive them to Santa Rosita. After a nasty argument, Mrs. Marcus and Emmeline exit the car to hitch their own ride.

Pike stops motorist Otto Meyer for a ride; however, after being told about the money, Meyer abandons Pike and convinces two service station employees to detain him. Pike destroys the station, steals a tow truck, and picks up Mrs. Marcus and Emmeline. Mrs. Marcus calls her son Sylvester, who lives near the park. She also claims Russell "assaulted" her, causing Sylvester to panic and drive towards her instead of getting the money for her. Meyer, meanwhile, picks up a stranded motorist and helps him get back home. Trying to get back to the highway, Meyer fails at crossing a deep river and his car is swept away, forcing him to steal another motorist's car.

After a furious argument with his wife and daughter, Culpepper is told his pension will be a pittance and has a mental breakdown. He instructs all the policemen following the motorists to back off on his signal and heads for the park. After reaching the Park, everyone begins searching for the "big W". Culpeper gives the signal and goes in alone. Emmeline finds the "big W" first, quickly followed by Pike and the others. After the money is dug up, Culpeper identifies himself, but does not arrest them. He persuades the motorists to turn themselves in.

Chief Aloysius blackmails the mayor into tripling Culpeper’s pension. He fails to get word of this to Culpeper, who has already gone after the stolen money. Figuring out Culpeper’s real motivation, the police chief orders his friend’s arrest. Suspicious about why Culpeper let them go, the motorists follow him and notice he is not returning to the police station. The men of the group chase Culpeper to a condemned building and corner him on a rickety fire escape which breaks because of their combined weight. In the struggle, the briefcase containing the money opens, scattering the cash to a crowd in the street below. When Culpeper and the men all pile onto a fire department ladder sent to rescue them, their combined weight causes it to spin uncontrollably and toss them wildly in different directions, leaving most of them heavily injured.

In the prison hospital, the men bemoan the loss of the money and blame their injuries on Culpeper. Culpeper responds that he may never laugh again, due to his lost pension, the ruined relationship with his family and the likelihood that the judge will probably be more lenient with them than with him. Mrs. Marcus, flanked by Emmeline and Monica (all in prison attire) enters and Mrs. Marcus begins berating the men, only for her to slip on Benjamin's dropped banana peel. All the men except Sylvester roar with laughter, and, after a brief hesitation, Culpeper joins in.