if i'm laughing really hard, i'm cracking up. what do those two have to do with each other? i didn't realize it until just now. anyone know?
2007-03-07 17:31:41 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
See link below and scroll down about a third of the way. Apparently it either refers to "cracking a smile" in response to funny stories told around a cracker barrel in a general store, or the one that makes more sense to me is the second version, where ladies in the Civil War era had to melt their makeup with a foundation of beeswax, and when they put it on and it cooled and hardened again, if they smiled or laughed it would start a series of cracks, so it looked like they "cracked up." In other words, it sounds like the phrase has been around since at least 1860 or so.
2007-03-07 19:06:17 · answer #1 · answered by Cookie777 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when u open ur mouth u are "cracked."
or
during the 60s and 70s, they probably made that slang when ur high on pot and started laughing uncontrollably...get it?
lol i dont know. i made them up.
2007-03-07 17:39:53 · answer #2 · answered by streetsofkerala 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
remember humpty dumpty
that is where it came from
2007-03-07 17:40:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋