a knee-slapper

A hilarious joke, especially one that evokes loud and prolonged laughter. My uncle told me a real knee-slapper the other day! Do you want to hear it?

Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

See also:

slapper
thigh-slapper
gales of laughter
howl with laughter
fall about with laughter
I'm dead
shake with laughter
shake with laughter, to
tearjerker
tear-jerker

References in periodicals archive

(How was Michael Barone overlooked?) Boy, was this a knee-slapper, punctuated by overly forced guffaws, darting glances, and seat-squirming so characteristic of those who doth protest too much.

Hillary as diversion

In other words, blame it on "Joseph's confiscatory tax policy." What a knee-slapper. This sort of thing must have passed for humor among the founding fathers of the supply-side movement as they knocked back their cocktails.

Bull pulpit: how the prosperous eighties came to be - and how we can get back there

None of the rest of us in the class considered the anecdote a knee-slapper, but we understood what he meant.

The role of humor in documentation - or - laughing 'til it bytes

词组	a knee-slapper
释义	a knee-slapper a knee-slapper A hilarious joke, especially one that evokes loud and prolonged laughter. My uncle told me a real knee-slapper the other day! Do you want to hear it? Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: slapper thigh-slapper gales of laughter howl with laughter fall about with laughter I'm dead shake with laughter shake with laughter, to tearjerker tear-jerker References in periodicals archive (How was Michael Barone overlooked?) Boy, was this a knee-slapper, punctuated by overly forced guffaws, darting glances, and seat-squirming so characteristic of those who doth protest too much. Hillary as diversion In other words, blame it on "Joseph's confiscatory tax policy." What a knee-slapper. This sort of thing must have passed for humor among the founding fathers of the supply-side movement as they knocked back their cocktails. Bull pulpit: how the prosperous eighties came to be - and how we can get back there None of the rest of us in the class considered the anecdote a knee-slapper, but we understood what he meant. The role of humor in documentation - or - laughing 'til it bytes
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