Thread: ГОIЧ

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

I nearly crapped my pants from laughing so hard

Я чуть на обосрался от смеха. It's kind of rude though

You could ease it off but not much by replacing обосраться with наложить в штаны

Anyway, we don't usually speak like that if we want to say that we laughed really really hard. We have a set phrase for that - лопнуть от смеха

Я чуть не лопнул от смеха

Also there is this phrase - смеяться до коликов/боли meaning that you'd been laughing so hard that it started hurting

Originally Posted by iCake

We have a set phrase for that - лопнуть от смеха

Я чуть не лопнул от смеха

Aha, thanks! I didn't immediately recognize the verb лопнуть, but Викисловарь had a good example sentence -- "Шарик надували до тех пор, пока он не лопнул" -- as well as a photo of a lightbulb bursting!

"I laughed until I split my sides" (or "until my sides split") would be the nearest equivalent expression in English.