to shat one's pants
- idiom
- Offensive
- When he saw the spider, he was so terrified that he shat his pants.
Examples
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Realizing he was about to fall from the roller coaster, he shat his pants from fear.
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Susan, tell them you've shat your pants.
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The sudden loud noise made her jump, and she shat her pants in shock.
Synonyms
To be very scared or surprised in a rude, informal way
To feel very frightened or surprised and often accidentally poop yourself
To feel very scared and almost lose control of your body
To accidentally pass solid waste into your underwear because of fear or sickness
To accidentally dirty your clothes with waste from your body because of fear, shock, or strong excitement
To accidentally pee or poo in your clothes because you are very scared
To be so frightened that you almost wet yourself
To suddenly become very shocked or frightened
To become very scared
How Messy
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to defecate involuntarily in one’s clothing' is directly compositional from 'shit' (to defecate) + 'one's' (possessive) + 'pants' (clothing), so a learner who knows the constituents can infer the sense. The construction is literal and cross-linguistically common, although it is colloquial/vulgar in register.
Etymology
Shat one's pants comes from a very literal image: someone was so scared or surprised that they accidentally shat, meaning 'pooped', in their pants. That's why it now means 'to poop in your pants without meaning to because of fear or shock'.