One might literally tell a child to "put on their big boy/girl pants" before a formal event. By association, the instruction also implies that one should act more maturely. As used in the …

2015年6月6日 · However, I think if you are trying to issue instructions to someone - to keep the hem of their pants from being soaked/soiled, (depending on what they are about to walk …

2011年6月15日 · A big, beefy male chauvinist marries a small, petite feminist. On their wedding night he takes off his trousers and tells her to put them on; they're so big that she could wear …

2016年7月28日 · get in(to) someone’s pants appears to be an extension of that methaphorical usage which became popular from the '60s (see Ngram) in. to manage to copulate with a …

2014年12月27日 · It is synonymous with nellie and big girl’s blouse. There are two proposed derivations for the word; the first is simply a borrowing of the female name as a term of …

"The boy bought a baseball and a basketball." If the boy bought two balls, you could say: "The boy bought two balls." You could also say, "The boy bought a pair of balls," but this would …

2017年8月9日 · I’m aware that ‘this’ is used for a singular thing while ‘these’ is used for plural. However, I also see people who use the phrase ‘this two’ so I’m not sure which one’s correct.

2020年2月10日 · For the bit of logic, we can think about a time frame. I HAVE a book. (I close my time frame on the Present. I consider the Present.)

2020年5月12日 · And there they were, Daudet, Lépine the musician, and Morny himself in the skull cap and big dressing gown in which he liked to play the Cardinal-Minister, jumping on …

2016年8月10日 · Wikipedia claims Don Maclean on Crackerjack in the 70s... would regularly give an alliterative reply, such as "Don't get your knickers in a knot" or "Don't get your tights in a …