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Er macht keinen Finger krumm. He doesn't lift a finger.

Sie haben sich kaputt-/krumm-/schlapp gelacht / zerkugelt / zerwuzelt [Ös.]/ einen Schranz in den Bauch gelacht [Schw.], als sie den Film sahen. They were rolling on the floor/doubled up with laughter / laughing themselves silly / killing themselves laughing when they saw the film.

Zeig es ihr und sie wird sich krumm- und schieflachen. Show it to her and you'll have her in stitches / rolling on the floor with laughter / and it will leave her doubled up with laughter.

Bei ihm lache ich mich krumm und schief. He has me in stitches.; He leaves me in stiches.; He has me rolling (in the aisles).

Warum ist die Banane krumm? [übtr.] How long is a piece of string? [fig.]

Stralsund 1990: Alte Kaufmannshäuser, in Jahrhunderten krumm und hohl geworden, stützen sich mit letzter Kraft auf eilig angebrachte Balken und verschraubte Eisenrohre. [G] Stralsund 1990: Old merchants' houses, empty and crooked with age, are shored up with hastily erected beams and steel girders to guard against imminent collapse.

The example sentences [G] were kindly provided by the Goethe Institute.
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