wet one's pants
Meanings
verb
- To wet oneself, to urinate in one's clothes while wearing them.
- To laugh uncontrollably.
- To be afraid; especially, to be extremely afraid.
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Etymology
The senses referring to laughing and being afraid are extensions from the literal (urination) sense; both involve an element of variably literal or figurative nature: they are generally figurative, but if one laughs hard enough or gets frightened badly enough, the wetting may sometimes happen literally.
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