“Some of the standards include big lips smacking a kiss or a heavyset cartoon character who drops trou and cuts the cheese.”

“The principal made the boys drop trou in the bathroom, while a female teacher patted the girls down.”

“So he dropped his guard as he dropped trou and commenced his downward spiral.”

“And do you spurn your trousers, a multiplication of the already bifurcated trouse and trews?”

“Heather Hadlock also reveals an important historical shift, this time by tracing the changing significance of the trouse r role.”

“The 64-year-old man was serving in Stars newsagents shop in Trouse Lane, Wednesbury, when the would-be robbers walked in.”

“Suddenly, it seems, everyone is wearing khaki trousers, usually with a high-rise and a wide-to-downright-ballooning leg.”

“But weeks later, a package arrived direct from the designer containing two pairs of trousers, two shirts, dress shoes, trainers and a belt.”

“He was fat and his belly looked as if it applied a little too much pressure on the waistband of his trousers.”

“Trem yer whuskers an change yer trousies for a kelt, an mebbe yell crack a joke wi less deeficulty.”

“There is some chant, popular among small children, about inflammable trouserings, which seems apposite at this point.”