No more stiff-bristled assertions of alpha-male supremacy or lingering shots of Rossetti roaring at the ceiling with his britches around his ankles.
"They wanted to fine me for filling out papers incorrectly and I was like 'Come on guys, get your britches on !' " To its credit, the INS has responded to such complaints by simplifying paperwork and by launching schemes such as "Operation Job" in Dallas, which helps employers to hire legal workers, such as ex-convicts, in place of folk without papers.Sceptics say such schemes are doomed to fail.
Levi-Strauss was a nice fellow, but got too big for his britches; Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, was a "hillbilly son of a bitch".
WITH his comic wooden glasses, baggy britches, oversized shoes and white-painted face, Boutini the clown seems an unlikely front man for a disarmament campaign.
The North Korean grand poobah finally got too big for his britches, what with ordering men to mimic his haircut and feeding his uncle to wild dogs, and was deposed.
When Alex's roughs came in, he'd given the giant an 18th-century look, knee britches, bulgy calves and real diamonds... ...... Reviewers of children's books can often be found praising a book's uplifting moral or improving lesson.
Miranda's Founding Fathers wear velvet frock coats and knee britches, not hoodies and jeans.
If you deem it unbecoming that Mr. Darcy should conduct himself thus, the film has got you right in the britches.
"I'm so glad we make Skinny Britches" — lightweight, layerable undershorts — "in purple and blue!
A hundred and sixty years ago in Arkansas, a man found himself in need of a wife, and placed a plainspoken but eloquent advertisement in his local newspaper: "Any gal what got a bed, calico dress, coffee-pot and skillet, knows how to cut our britches, can make a hunting shirt, and knows how to take care of children, can have my services till death parts both of us".
Perhaps Nixon's having shrunk back into his britches helped.
