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Idiom

poop in one's pants

Meaning

to become extremely frightened.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“I nearly pooped my pants when the lights suddenly went out.”

“When the hiker heard a loud growl in the dark forest, he nearly pooped his pants.”

“The sudden, deafening roar of the engine caused the inexperienced pilot to nearly poop his pants as the plane plummeted toward the ground.”

Examples

simple

“I nearly pooped my pants when the lights suddenly went out.”

contextual

“When the hiker heard a loud growl in the dark forest, he nearly pooped his pants.”

complex

“The sudden, deafening roar of the engine caused the inexperienced pilot to nearly poop his pants as the plane plummeted toward the ground.”

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