wet one's pants
English
editEtymology
editThe senses referring to laughing and being afraid are extensions from the literal (urination) sense; both involve an element of variably literal or figurative nature: they are generally figurative, but if one laughs hard enough or gets frightened badly enough, the wetting may sometimes happen literally.
Verb
editwet one's pants (third-person singular simple present wets one's pants, present participle wetting one's pants, simple past and past participle wet one's pants or wetted one's pants)
- (idiomatic) To wet oneself, to urinate in one's clothes while wearing them.
- Coordinate terms: crap one's pants; wet the bed
- If you keep on refusing to excuse anyone for a bathroom break, you're going to force someone to wet their pants. Don't go overboard with it.
- (informal, vulgar, idiomatic) To laugh uncontrollably.
- Pretty much the whole night at the comedy club was hilarious, but that encore by Taylor Tomlinson had me wetting my pants.
- (informal, vulgar, idiomatic) To be afraid; especially, to be extremely afraid.
- Synonym: crap one's pants
- He just about wet his pants when he found out how many accounts receivable were still outstanding.
Synonyms
edit- (all senses): piss one's pants
Related terms
edit- (fear): scaredy pants
Translations
editwet oneself — see wet oneself