| 单词 | pants |
| 释义 | pants (pænts ) 1. plural noun [oft a pair of NOUN] B1+ Pants are a piece of underwear which have two holes to put your legs through and elastic around the top to hold them up round your waist or hips. [British] I put on my bra and pants. You should always pack a spare pair of pants. 2. plural noun [oft a pair of NOUN] Pants are a piece of clothing that covers the lower part of your body and each leg. [US] He wore brown corduroy pants and a white cotton shirt. 3. uncountable noun If you say that something is pants, you mean that it is very poor in quality. [British, informal] The place is pants, yet so popular. 4. the pants off phrase If someone bores, charms, or scares the pants off you, for example, they bore, charm, or scare you a lot. [informal, emphasis] You'll bore the pants off your grandchildren. We all love to frighten the pants off ourselves by going on hair-raising rides at funfairs. 5. by the seat of your pants phrase If you fly by the seat of your pants or do something by the seat of your pants, you use your instincts to tell you what to do in a new or difficult situation rather than following a plan or relying on equipment. 6. to be caught with one's pants down phrase [VERB inflects] If someone is caught with their pants down, something happens that they are not prepared for and that reveals something embarrassing or shocking about them. In British English, you can also say that they are caught with their trousers down. Somebody right at the top has been caught with his trousers down. I think we caught them with their pants down. They're a bit confused. 7. to wear the pants phrase If one person in a couple wears the pants, or in British English wears the trousers, they are the one who makes all the decisions. [informal] She may give the impression that she wears the trousers but it's Tim who makes the final decisions. Idioms: have ants in your pants to be very restless or impatient Before, there would be no way I would sit down and take it easy. It was like I had ants in my pants. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers beat the pants off someone [informal] to defeat someone completely in a contest or competition Devlin indicated the chess table beside the sofa. `Any excuse to get away from that. He was beating the pants off me.' Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers bore the pants off someone or scare the pants off someone to bore, scare, or charm someone a lot When I was a kid, circuses bored the pants off me, but I'd always wanted to be a performer. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers someone is caught with their pants down said to mean that something happens that someone is not prepared for and that reveals an embarrassing or shocking fact about them. In British English, you can also say that someone is caught with their trousers down. In 1991, the Department of Transport was caught with its pants down and took seven months to produce the document needed to change legislation. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers fly by the seat of your pants to do something difficult or dangerous using only your instincts, because you lack the right kind of experience or information about it The truth is that neither experts nor mothers know as much as each might wish; to a great extent, all of us fly by the seat of our pants and try to learn quickly from experience. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Translations: Chinese: 男人短衬裤 Japanese: パンツ 洋服 |
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