to shit my pants
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- idiom
- /ʃɪt maɪ pænts/
- Offensive
:
cagarse de miedo
- I thought you were gonna shit your pants, little guy.
- gonna shit my pants
- made me shit my pants
- almost shit my pants
I see this and I shit my pants.
- I see this and I shit my pants.
- But when I walk past a group of teenage boys I shit my pants.
Examples
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I think I'm gonna shit my pants.
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Shepard gives Frank a look that would make a Marine Drill Sergeant shit his pants.
Fiction book (2000) -
I think he just shit his pants.
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Dude, you shit your pants?
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And you would shit your pants if you had ever experienced 1% of what I have.
Blog text (28) -
I think I shit my pants.
Fiction book (1997) -
All right, don't shit your pants.
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You're gonna shit your pants!
Fiction book (1999) -
Actually, I was on Minecraft today, and my friend ran out of a cave screaming and said he shit his pants from Herobrine.
Blog text (16) -
When the sudden loud noise erupted, I almost shit my pants in shock.
Synonyms
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9.9
To feel very frightened or surprised and often accidentally poop yourself
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To feel very scared and almost lose control of your body
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9.9
To accidentally pass solid waste into your underwear because of fear or sickness
To suddenly become very shocked or frightened
To become very scared
To be so frightened that you almost wet yourself
Poop in your clothes by accident because you are very scared or shocked
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 accidentally wet your clothes because you feel very scared, very excited, or laugh too hard
To accidentally pee in your clothes from fear, laughter, or embarrassment
How Scared
Surface Forms
Morphology
The literal parts ('shit' = defecate; 'my' + 'pants' = one's underwear) directly yield the image of soiling oneself, which transparently maps onto extreme fear or shock; many languages use similar bodily-reaction metaphors, so a B1 learner who knows the words can often infer the figurative meaning. However, the expression is vulgar and its figurative use (degree of emotional reaction, pragmatic force, and register) is conventional rather than strictly compositional, so full understanding and appropriate use require exposure beyond constituent meanings.
Etymology
Shit my pants paints a clear picture: someone is so shocked or scared that they accidentally shit their pants. So, the phrase means 'to be extremely shocked, surprised, or frightened'.