wet one's pants
短语词形变化
释义与例句
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1.
To wet oneself, to urinate in one's clothes while wearing them.
习语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.
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2.
To laugh uncontrollably.
习语 非正式 粗俗Pretty much the whole night at the comedy club was hilarious, but that encore by Taylor Tomlinson had me wetting my pants.
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3.
To be afraid; especially, to be extremely afraid.
习语 非正式 粗俗He just about wet his pants when he found out how many accounts receivable were still outstanding.
词源
The 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.
来源:wiktionary