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Difference between slacks, pants, and trousers? I wonder what differences are between usage of slacks, pants, and trousers? Their meanings seem the same by looking up Google’s Internet dictionary and Wikipedia
How common is the word trousers in American English? The word pants is without question the most dominant form of describing a garment that covers one's legs in the US (or the specific forms of pants: slacks, jeans, sweats, etc )
idioms - Etymology of cut someone some slack - English Language . . . From the novel, Apple Tree Yard I'm curious about the origins of to cut some slack I know slacks are American English for trousers or pants, and a slacker is a lazy person But what is a slack and how does one "cut" it?
meaning - What is the difference between trash, garbage, litter . . . To me, pants is a more generic term, trousers suggests something a workman would wear, and slacks is what a professional wears in the office But my New York mother-in-law uses trousers for more formal pants, and dungarees for jeans
Does pants more commonly mean trousers or underpants? In the UK, I've heard pants being used as slang for underpants (or was it in Bridget Jones' Diary?), whereas in India it almost exclusively means "trousers" Describing the meaning of "put your pa
slang - Word for someone who does not like want to get a job or do . . . From Wikipedia on Hobo: Unlike "tramps"—who work only when they are forced to, and "bums"—who do not work at all, "hobos" are itinerant workers I think bum is the ideal word you want without sounding antiquated or too harsh If you are looking for harsh, I'd go with "useless waste of space "
Word-usage: “two pair” or “two pairs”? Proper phrasing: If one has “two . . . The use of two pair was more common in the past It applied to a wide range of nouns where the semantics parsed as two pair = four But prior to about 1830 two pair of X was more common than two pairs of X in British English It declined slower in the US, where the crossover was about 1850 And it should surprise no one that I still use that form for nearly everything I come from a long line
Etymology of Cowboy as a bad workman builder? 1942 Amer Speech XVII 103 1 Cowboy, reckless driver 1952 P H BONNER SPQR (1953) xx 174 Two very chic girls were sitting on bar stools with a typical Via Veneto cow~boy in sports jacket and flannel slacks 1954 in P G Hollowell Lorry Driver (1968) vii 191 Cowboy, a reckless driver 1958 E DUNDY Dud Avocado I vi 98 One of those