doubled-over

1. What is doubled-over? - Laughing so hard that they hold their midriffs
2. Is roast a typo to mean toast?-- No. A roast is 'a party to celebrate someone's life where the guests make humorous speeches about that person.'

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/roast
Noun definition 3b

They were laughing so hard they could not sit upright.

1. I would not hyphenate "http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/double-sb-up-over" there. It means that they were overcome with mirth. You have to picture them laughing so hard that they were bent over at the waist.

2. "Roast" is pun on "toast". The celebrity roas

Roast and toast are sometimes used together. Roast is to tell something a little bit critical (or embarrassing) of a person but still very funny. Toast is to tell the extremely good things about a person.

Doubled over laughing:

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Hi all,

Thanks for giving me such help.

1. I like to know from the original sentence if:
they were doubled over in laughter
they doubled over in laughter
the farewell doubled them in laughter from that original sentence.

2. I found these on dictionary:

usually + over or up [no obj] ? We all doubled over laughing.? He doubled up in pain.

I don't understand your first question: the text says "journalists doubled-over in laughter", and they did so in response to Churkin's remarks.

tinanam0102Do they mean the same? Why the preposition usage is different? He doubled up in painHe was doubled over with pain

They mean the same: two variations on the same idiomatic phrase, that is all.:

They

Hi Mister Micawber,

I remember you once taught me about the stative form and verb form but this one: 'had journalists doubled-over in laughter'

Like the examples:

He was doubled up in pain (stative)
He doubled up in pain (verb)

Is this sentence one of the above format?

Thanks
TN

tinanam0102I remember you once taught me about the stative form and verb form ...Is this sentence one of the above format?

I don't remember what I said then, but no.

tinanam0102had journalists doubled-over in laughter'

This is a causative verb ('have') with object and '-ed' participle complement.

I had my TV repa

Hi Mister Micawber,

I think I understand this pattern. Thank you.

TN