单词 | name is pants |
释义 | > as lemmas(a person's) name is pants P1. U.S. colloquial. (a person's) name is pants and variants: indicating that someone is discredited or unpopular, or has failed. Cf. one's name is mud at mud n.1 Phrases 3. Now rare. ΚΠ 1886 College Courier (Monmouth, Illinois) Jan. 15/2 O! dignity, thy name is pants when thou essayist to hold a candle to the Coup. 1893 Puck (N.Y.) 12 July 324/2 When things don't come a man's way right off he gits to thinkin' his name is pants. 1921 Hamburg (Iowa) Reporter 9 June We will never be able to play another ball game and our name will be ‘pants’ from this day on for ever more. 1931 Moberly (Missouri) Monitor-Index 14 Oct. 7/5 Farmer's prayer... O Mighty Hoover, who are in Washington, when not fishing on the Rapidan. Thy name is pants. < as lemmas |
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