Sentence examples similar to a britches from inspiring English sources

Instead of giving a man a look that squares with the efficiency of his iPod and BlackBerry, that does credit to his body, designers have made him an object of our ridicule, a fussy britches.

The book gives a sense of the tomboy Ms. Lee, a k a Miss Frippy Britches, growing up watchfully in a town full of people who would later populate her fiction.

The oldest of the three, Ethan, 7, wore a vest, knee-length britches and an eye patch adorned with a "Pirates of the Caribbean" sticker.

There are a good selection of "Ballads Long and Short" on the disc, including "The Tailor's Britches," a banjo-driven comic tale; a rousing American version of the Gypsy Laddie ballad known as "Gypsum Davy;" and a hair-raising unaccompanied version of the classic tale of incest and suicide known as "The Bonny Hind".

This image, the projected frontispiece, shows a black, green-eyed cat wearing a hunting jacket, britches, and boots.

It opens with a soloist, Joe Bowie, in knee britches and a frock coat over a bare chest.

We had "leather britches", a dish that is made by stringing up a particular variety of bean and drying them over a hearth, then cooking them in water for several hours.

It's a classic britches-to-riches saga of the self-made entrepreneur (and workaholic) "who has created a standard of excellence for the Canadian Women's Fashion Industry," according to nygard.com's hagiographic account.

Why, when Lizzie accompanies her aunt and uncle to the Peak District of England, should the film take care to set her silent upon a peak, her dress and tresses stirring in the wind, if not to drop the clanging hint that Mr. Darcy is less an icy gentleman of means than a britches-busting Heathcliff in the making?

I get to wear britches a lot.

It's driving the idea that Barack Obama is somehow presumptuous, too arrogant, too big for his britches — a man who obviously does not know his place.