1. The pants stink. (Not stinks.)
2. The pants smell bad.
3. The pants are smelly. OK
By the way, I heard (yes I know, it couldn't get more vague, but I truly can't recall the source) that the word 'trousers' is falling out of use in BrE or perhaps becoming less popular? Is it true? Do you go for 'pants' more often to mean 'trousers'?
Yes, colloquially.And, how about pongy?
I can't speak for anyone under the age of 40, but I have never used "pants" instead of "trousers", nor do I intend to. [...] Young people today, eh?! Wow, I'm showing my age.
By the way, I heard (yes I know, it couldn't get more vague, but I truly can't recall the source) that the word 'trousers' is falling out of use in BrE or perhaps becoming less popular? Is it true? Do you go for 'pants' more often to mean 'trousers'?
I might be showing my age to, but...
...I haven't heard pants being used this way. It was used a slang term for rubbish/no good, but not trousers IMO.
The more the merrier!
PS. Somebody stole 'o' in your 'too'
Woah, wasn't aware of this use of 'pants'. :up:
pants (adj) [not before noun] BrE spoken informal - very bad: The concert was pants. Longman
I had just about got used to this meaning, when my son (30) and his friends recently started using it to mean "excellent"!Is it still in use? I didn't hear it last time I was in the UK so I assumed it had faded- that's one problem with only making short visits. ;-)
I had just about got used to this meaning, when my son (30) and his friends recently started using it to mean "excellent"!
I had just about got used to this meaning, when my son (30) and his friends recently started using it to mean "excellent"!