| 词汇 | not a dry seat in the house |
| 词源 | not a dry seat in the house. The drama critic’s cliché there wasn’t a dry eye in the house, to describe a moving play, sug- gested this humorous expression, which has been fairly com- mon in England since about 1930 for a play or movie so funny that the audience was helpless with laughter—in fact, wet their pants laughing. |
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