in short trousers

English

Etymology

From an early 20th century practice of reserving short pants only for small children.

Prepositional phrase

in short trousers

  1. (idiomatic) In childhood; as a child.
    We didn't have computers or mobile phones back when I was in short trousers!

Synonyms
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