| 单词 | nothing in trousers |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnothing in trousers P2. colloquial (chiefly British). anything in trousers: any man. Similarly everything in trousers, nothing in trousers, etc. Often in contexts in which a person (esp. a woman) is disparagingly characterized as sexually promiscuous or indiscriminate. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [noun] > any man a manc1225 anything in trousers1858 1858 N.Y. Tribune 9 Apr. 5/5 Women are sold by parents from Circassia, and they mean by the sale precisely the same as the fashionable woman now means when she calls a good match for her darling Jane anything in trowsers with twenty thousand a year. 1879 Temple Bar Mar. 412 A mediæval young man who is as like her as anything in trousers can be like anything in petticoats. 1887 Lantern 14 May 3/1 They go crazy over everything that wears trousers. 1953 H. Pakington Brothers Bellamy xxix. 147 She..went on to imply, though in more refined language, that nothing in trousers was safe within fifty miles of Miss Newlyn. 1979 A. Price Tomorrow's Ghost i. 9 Anything in trousers was as much Target for Tonight to Marilyn Francis as Marilyn Francis was for anything in trousers. 2014 Times 10 Sept. (Times2 section) 4/4 They chat up anything in trousers. < as lemmas |
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