wet one's pants
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The senses referring to laughing and being afraid are extensions from the literal (urination) sense; both involve an element of variably literal or figurative nature: they are generally figurative, but if one laughs hard enough or gets frightened badly enough, the wetting may sometimes happen literally.
verb wets one's pants · wetting one's pants · wet one's pants · wetted one's pants
- To wet oneself, to urinate in one's clothes while wearing them. If you keep on refusing to excuse anyone for a bathroom break, you're going to force someone to wet their pants. Don't go overboard with it.
- To laugh uncontrollably. Pretty much the whole night at the comedy club was hilarious, but that encore by Taylor Tomlinson had me wetting my pants.
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To be afraid; especially, to be extremely afraid.
He just about wet his pants when he found out how many accounts receivable were still outstanding.
Similar: crap one's pants, piss one's pants
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