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bore the pants off of someone means to be exceedingly dull and uninteresting to someone.
--You bore the pants off of me! The lecture bored the pants off of everybody.
--Whatever you do and, I daresay, whatever you will ever do, bores the pants off me. But the main problem is you should bore your own pants off in the first place, but you don't."
Similar idioms:
- to bore someone's pants off
- to bore someone stiff
- to bore someone to death
- to bore someone to tears
The earliest citation of pant-boring in the OED comes from P G Wodehouse's Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954): "They were creeps of the first water and would bore the pants off me." For a higher class of boring, we refer to Malcolm Muggeridge's description of Sir Anthony Eden: "He was not only a bore; he bored for England.!!"
Why pant-boring I don't know but Wodehouse would have meant by 'pants' 'trousers'.
--You bore the pants off of me! The lecture bored the pants off of everybody.
--Whatever you do and, I daresay, whatever you will ever do, bores the pants off me. But the main problem is you should bore your own pants off in the first place, but you don't."
Similar idioms:
- to bore someone's pants off
- to bore someone stiff
- to bore someone to death
- to bore someone to tears
The earliest citation of pant-boring in the OED comes from P G Wodehouse's Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954): "They were creeps of the first water and would bore the pants off me." For a higher class of boring, we refer to Malcolm Muggeridge's description of Sir Anthony Eden: "He was not only a bore; he bored for England.!!"
Why pant-boring I don't know but Wodehouse would have meant by 'pants' 'trousers'.