Fancy pants In english explanation

The meaning, explanation, definition and origin of the idiom/phrase "Fancy pants", English Idiom Dictionary ( also found in Vietnamese )

author Rachel Chau calendar 2021-10-13 09:10

Meaning of Fancy pants

Fancy pants American adjective informal

The phrase is often used to indicate the speaker's annoyance.

Fancy in a pretentious way

He celebrated his graduation at a fancy-pants restaurant.

She keeps going out with those fancy-pants despite her mother’s objection.

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(as) gaudy as a butterfly

Used to descibe someone or something fancy or colorful

be in cloud cuckoo land

Said when someone believes in unrealistic or fanciful ideas that is impossible to happen

jazz up

Make someone or something fancier, more exciting or interesting
 

be under the illusion that

Used to describe having a mistaken belief.

give one's eyeteeth

Used to describe that you want something very much and you would do anything to have it.

Origin of Fancy pants

The first reference to the term in print is in an advert in the Maine newspaper The Bangor Daily Whig And Courier, in October 1843.

The Origin Cited: phrases.org.uk .
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