#51 - Mayor tells Trump to put his big boy pants on and admit defeat - to put sb. big boy pants on

Transcript:

Yes...NO, I think what the president needs to do is frankly put his big boy pants on. He needs to acknowledge the fact that he lost and he needs to congratulate the winner just as Jimmy Carter did just as George H. W. Bush did. And frankly, just as Al Gore did and stop this and let us move forward as a country.

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And that's my feeling. I doubt he'll listen to me, but. That's it.

And in this excerpt, you could listen to the mayor of Philadelphia telling Donald Trump to put his big boy pants on and admit to defeat. And this is also the expression we want to cover in this episode of the Vocab Man.

No. I think what the president needs to do is frankly put his big boy pants on and this expression basically means to act like a grownup.

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So according to Peter Scherrer who was born in 1957, back in the day, it was normal for boys to wear shorts until they were tought to be old enough to wear long trousers or the so-called "big boy trousers" or pants. And in the case of using it with a female, the expression putting on your big girl panties would be the equivalent version.

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And it goes without saying that it comes with a rather negative connotation. So be aware or careful while using these expression. So in the past, most boys wore short pants as children, until reaching a certain age and wearing long pants showed they were expected to act in a more major adult manner. So.

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Another way of expressing the same idea could be you're not a baby anymore or something like that. But as I said before, be careful, it is a figure of speech by the way. So I hope you liked this episode and if you can't catch every word, you can head over to the show notes in which you'll find the transcript.

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No, I think what the president needs to do is frankly put his big boy pants on. He needs to acknowledge the fact that he lost and he needs to congratulate the winner just as Jimmy Carter did just as George H w Bush did.

And frankly, just as Al Gore did and stop this and let us move forward as a country. And that's my feeling. I doubt he'll listen to me, but. That's it.


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