Смысл: apsides

apsides[ʹæpsıdi:z]
pl от apsis
apsis[ʹæpsıs]
n (pl apsides)
<Í> 1) часто pl астр. апсида
2) = apse 1

split sides Идиома

choose sides

help one side or team, take sides Some of the students will dislike you if you choose sides.

choose up sides

choose people to play on two or more teams Let's choose up sides and play a game of volleyball.

take sides

support one side on the other You should not take sides in the argument or both sides will hate you.

there are two sides to every story

two people tell different stories of the same event, compare notes If you compare Mary's story with Sam's, you'll know there are two sides to every story.

two sides to every story

(See there are two sides to every story)

bat for both sides

to be bisexual

take sides with

favor one party over another袒护My brother always takes sides with my sister．我哥哥总是袒护我妹妹。

split one's sides with laughter

Idiom(s): split one's sides (with laughter)

Theme: LAUGHTER

to laugh so hard that one's sides almost split. (Always an exaggeration.)
• The members of the audience almost split their sides with laughter.
• When I heard what happened to Patricia, I almost split my sides.

Two sides of the same coin

If two things are two sides of the same coin, there is much difference between them.

choose up sides|choose|sides

v. phr. To form two teams with two captains taking turns choosing players. The boys chose up sides for a game of softball. Tom and Joe were the captains. They chose up sides.

split (one's) sides

To beam actively or hysterically. Your jokes are absolute for your accent tonight. You'll accept them agreeable their sides!Learn more: side, split

split one's abandon (with laughter)

Fig. to beam so adamantine that one's abandon about split. (Always an exaggeration.) The associates of the admirers about breach their abandon with laughter. When I heard what happened to Patricia, I about breach my sides.Learn more: side, split

split one's sides, to

To beam uproariously. This hyperbole dates from the seventeenth century. Thomas Brown acclimated it in Saints in Uproar (1687): “You’d breach a man’s abandon with laughing.” The chat “split” came into use somewhat later. Dickens acclimated it in The Old Curiosity Shop (1840), “He bade fair to breach his abandon with laughing,” and Harriet Beecher Stowe in Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), “I laughed fit to split.” Learn added shake with laughter.Learn more: split

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