![]() ![]() Your second example ( Put pants on before you "hangout" with President Obama on Google+) is in a completely different context, and is meant to be funny but not insulting. This is definitely a slang usage used among friends in an obviously-joking way it probably won't cause offense, but in any other context it could be quite offensive. "Put on your big boy/girl pant/ies" is a playful but rather insulting way of saying that, up till now, you've been acting like a child who hasn't been potty-trained yet: time to grow up and act like an adult. An intermediate step is "trainers" or "pull-ups", which are basically diapers with elastic: the kid gets used to the idea that s/he shouldn't just "let go" at any moment, but the absorption is there so that it's not a total disaster if it happens.įinally, when the kid has demonstrated his/her self-control, the much-anticipated "big girl pants" or "big boy pants" are awarded: the first pair of underwear (and whatever clothes go on top) that don't humiliate the kid. In the United States, toilet-training a child typically starts with diapers. Is it a well-received English phrase as used publicly by DNC Chair, and specifically quoted in Washington Post? I don't know what the writer is talking about.Īlthough the word, ‘put one's pants on’ doesn’t seem to me a word of very good taste, nor worth adding to my repertory, what does it mean? Does it mean to ‘behave in disciplined manner’? Now with more than 90 million users, they just picked up a rather prominent one.” “Put pants on before you "hangout" with President Obama on Google+ Google+, impervious to the teasing of tech-bloggers, marches on. I found an example of ‘Put Pants’ in the heading of the following text in Google: No English online dictionaries of Cambridge, Oxford and Merriam-Webster carries ‘put one's pants on.’ Google Ngram registers ‘put one's pants on” neither. Romney is running for president of the United States, and he and hisĬampaign leadership need to put their big boy and big girl pants on You know, this is a campaign for president of the United States. It quotes the following remark of DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital in an interview Monday (July 16) morning: I saw the phrase “put somebody's pants on’ in today’s ‘Quote of the Day” of Washington Post (July 17).
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