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Sun 14 Sep, 2014 07:06 am
I saw this phrase in a movie.《How to Train Your Dragon 2》0:14:35
Could anyone show me the meaning of it?
@weiwei,
It's an English idiom one might use to express shock and/or fear. The phrase describes the act where one urinates in ones pants or worse when he or she is exposed to some kind of shock or trauma.
@tsarstepan,
I don't think it has to do with urination. I think the metaphor is of spontaneous
defecation due to shock and/or fear.
@weiwei,
There is a similar expression "I done wet my britches" which means "to become overwhelmed by something most improbable". I haven´t seen this movie so I cannot say for sure what it means. It depends on the context.
It means to be so frightened that one defecates in one's pants. It is, of course, a figurative expression (usually), in that one does not (usually) actually defecate in one's pants. Britches is another word for pants.
@tsarstepan,
tsarstepan wrote:The phrase describes the act where one urinates in ones pants or worse when he or she is exposed to some kind of shock or trauma.
Nope.
Wet one's britches - piss in one's pants.
Soil one's britches - **** in one's pants.
@contrex,
Americans soil their pants, and we soil our trousers.
@McTag,
McTag wrote:
Americans soil their pants, and we soil our trousers.
That's better than Americans soiling our trousers, and us soiling their pants. (I think.)
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