to pee one's pants
- idiom
- /pi wʌnz pænts/
- Informal
:
hacerse pis
- I peed my pants.
Examples
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I think I peed my pants.
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I almost peed my pants.
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I thought you were going to pee your pants.
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Did you pee your pants?
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You do everything I tell you, keep your mouth shut, and try not to pee your pants.
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Oh, honey... you peed your pants.
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Dad, either I just peed my pants or I'm...
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If I peed my pants, would you pretend I just got wet from the rain?
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I peed my pants.
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When the clown jumped out, I was so surprised that I almost peeled my pants.
Synonyms
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9.9
To wet your clothes when you laugh a lot or feel very afraid
To accidentally pee in your clothes from fear, laughter, or embarrassment
To accidentally pee or poo in your clothes because you are very scared
To be so frightened that you almost wet yourself
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to accidentally urinate in your clothes' is directly and transparently derived from 'pee' (to urinate) combined with 'one's pants' (one's trousers); the phrase is a literal composition of its parts. This compositional logic is cross-linguistically common and predictable for a B1 learner who knows the constituent words (register is informal but does not affect transparency).
Etymology
Pee one's pants comes from a very literal image: someone laughs or gets so scared that they lose control and pee in their pants. That's why it means 'to accidentally urinate in your clothes'.