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ants in one's pants
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have ants in one's pants
Verb (intransitive):
To be agitated and fidgety
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- Brian Nelson,
The Kill
(translated version of a 1871-2 work by
Emile Zola
,
La Curée
‘That wretched Provençal! He can't sit still: he's
got ants in his pants
.’
[1]
1946
—
Robert Penn Warren
,
All the King's Men
A guy gets
ants in his pants
and writes a sonnet. Is the sonnet less of a good — if it is good, which I doubt — because the dame he got the ants over happened to be married to somebody else, so that his passion, as they say, was illicit?.
[2]
1844
-
The Living Age
p. 163
The people have scarcely sat down to table than they feel
ants in their pants
and begin to dance, old and young alike.
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