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Wow, we have a British expression which was originated by an obscure line in a song from a singer who's probably only listened to by a very small minority of middle-aged, middle-class British people? Hmmm. Let's just ignore the most popular theory, that it came from the youth of the early to mid-1990s, then!
Anyway, here's someone who seems to at least partially agree with me:
http://english2american.com/dictionary/cat_clothing.html
and another definition:
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/p.htm
and an interesting (and embarrassing) example of usage:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1999/02/99/e-cyclopedia/1076585.stm
and, finally, what Michael Quinion has to say:
http://www.worldwidewords.org/topicalwords/tw-pan4.htm
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted "Ah pants!" gift horse 06/27/05 08:08 PM Re: "Ah pants!" Capfka 06/27/05 08:32 PM Re: "Ah pants!" gift horse 06/28/05 12:19 AM Re: "Ah pants!" carpathian 06/28/05 11:44 AM Re: "Ah pants!" Capfka 06/28/05 04:24 PM Re: "Ah pants!" nancyk 06/28/05 05:11 PM Re: "Ah pants!" gift horse 06/28/05 05:29 PM Papa's got a brand new bag carpathian 06/28/05 06:05 PM Re: Papa's got a brand new bag Capfka 06/28/05 06:28 PM Re: Papa's got a brand new bag carpathian 06/28/05 08:06 PM Re: crap theory based on a google search maverick 06/28/05 08:04 PM Carpal theory of Crap carpathian 06/28/05 09:49 PM
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