Split your sides (laughing/with laughter) hyperbole verb phrase
To laugh a lot at someone or something
I split my sides laughing when she started to sing.
We all split our sides with laughter watching our baby learn to crawl.
Laugh in an uncontrollable way
1. To laugh with shyness and embarrassment
2. Used to say that someone vomits on the floor, whether it's carpeted or not
Used to describe someone that gives joy and humor to others
to laugh extremely, to laugh out of control
The verb "split" must be conjugated according to its tense.
This phrase dates back to seventeenth century.
If you swallow the bait, you take something that someone offers you, or agree to do something that someone asks you to do without knowing that it is a trick or way of getting something from you.
You can't just do whatever he wants you to do. Don't swallow the bait.