A Conversation for Trousers versus Pants
Pants means bad
DickieP Started conversation Aug 10, 1999
I was musing about the origin of pants meaning "not very good" in Britain. I would like to advance the theory that this synonym began in the 1980's, following the transmission of the Comic Strip Presents episode The Supergrass. In this, a word association game is ended when someone spots a copper and shouts "sh*t", which is followed by the associated word "pants". It might be...
Incidentally, diarrhoea is hereditary - it runs in your jeans.
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