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  1. Difference between "slacks", "pants", and "trousers"?

    Aug 27, 2012 · 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.

  2. How common is the word "trousers" in American English?

    Jul 16, 2017 · 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.).

  3. idioms - Etymology of "cut someone some slack" - English …

    Feb 1, 2015 · 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 …

  4. Does "pants" more commonly mean "trousers" or "underpants"?

    Jan 27, 2011 · 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 …

  5. verbs - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Oct 27, 2013 · Can you suggest some words which can describe a person who is starting to get careless and who slacks, or the very action of becoming careless? A person who was …

  6. syntactic analysis - 'Instead of' vs 'In stead of' - English Language ...

    Feb 15, 2015 · Is the following sentence valid? They did this in stead of that. What is the correct usage of the phrase instead of?

  7. Etymology of "Cowboy" as a bad workman / builder?

    Jul 3, 2017 · 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 …

  8. meaning - What is the difference between trash, garbage, litter ...

    Sep 6, 2015 · 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 …

  9. "like I" or "like me"? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Imagine you’re describing a picture to someone; “My old coach used to always wear these really horrible green slacks for practice… that’s him there on the left”.

  10. Word-usage: “two pair” or “two pairs”? Proper phrasing: If one has …

    Apr 4, 2019 · 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 …