It might help to point out that "pants" in the UK doesn't
mean trousers, it means underwear - I think in the US you
would say "shorts" or something.
Then again it might not help.
Girvan
Marianne.macdonald@lineone.net wrote:
> I've been waiting for somebody else to answer the
"pants" question,
> because I don't really know about it -- I _think_ it
probably derives
> from "pants down" - embarrassing, therefore
embarrassingly awful.
>
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