/ˈlɑːf jɔː(ɹ) ˈhɛd ˈɒf/
English idiom, informal. To laugh very hard.
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How do people use Laugh your head off
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Informal and friendly, for laughing so hard you can’t stop. Swap “your” for whoever is laughing: “he was laughing his head off”, “we laughed our heads off”. It’s mostly used about something that already happened, and the ruder version “laugh your ass off” says the same thing.
Laugh your head off
in real sentences
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He was laughing his head off.
Tatoeba, sentence by Nuel, CC BY 2.0 FR
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We laughed our heads off.
Tatoeba, sentence by sundown, CC BY 2.0 FR
Where does Laugh your head off
come from?
There’s no story behind this one, and English Wiktionary gives neither an etymology nor a first date. It’s part of a family of English exaggerations where you do something so hard your head comes off, like “scream your head off”. Nobody seems to have pinned down which came first.
Mistakes learners make with Laugh your head off
Learners keep “head” singular for a group (“we laughed our head off”) or use “the head”. The possessive follows the subject and goes plural with plural subjects: “they laughed their heads off”.
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