| 单词 | to be caught with one's pants down |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be caught with one's pants down b. to be caught with one's pants down: to be surprised in an embarrassing situation; to be caught off guard. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > act or speak without preparation [verb (intransitive)] > be embarrassingly unprepared to be caught with one's pants down1922 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. vi. [Hades] 97 Must be careful about women. Catch them once with their pants down. Never forgive you after. 1963 P. McCutchan Man from Moscow iii. 36 There was..four days to go before the arrival of the Foreign Ministers but the West was not going to be caught with its pants down. 1994 Q. Tarantino & R. Avary Pulp Fiction i. 11 You catch [restaurants]..with their pants down. They're not expecting to get robbed. < as lemmas |
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