All mouth and no trousers?
Do you know anyone like that? :)
2007-10-01 03:14:32 · 25 answers · asked by ? 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
No baby. We don't say that here - but I'm gonna say it now. Thanks. ♥
2007-10-01 03:19:57 · answer #1 · answered by ♥Cherry♥ 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
All mouth and no trousers? ~ Haven't heard that before, but then again English is not my native language.
My favourite expression is:
Fell Out Of The Ugly Tree And Hit Every Branch On The Way Down
2007-10-01 10:20:33 · answer #2 · answered by Kicky 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I actually have not heard this expression. Hehehe! I know a lot of nasty girls that are all mouth and no trousers!
2007-10-01 10:18:24 · answer #3 · answered by Rosie aka Rosie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He-he!!! We've got a simmilar one in my home lingo (Afrikaans): "Net bek en geen binnegoed!" (Translation: "All mouth and no guts!") Its usually used to depict a coward, or "yellow-bellied" person . . . I think the origin of your's comes from the south pre War of Inpedendance era, and it originally used to be "All mouth and nothing to fill the trousers", but I might be mistaken (I recall having heard this in an old movie: "Shanandoah" - about the war between the Confederates and the Union Yankees).
I suspect both yours and mine comes originally from the early Dutch settlers - common ancestors for both our peoples.
I looked under a favorite site for old American sayings, folklore and quotations: http://www.brownielocks.com/folksayings.html, but I could find any reference the either . . .
2007-10-01 13:58:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Oh I know the expression well.
It is loosely translated as:
Talks a big game, but doesn't have the butt to back it up.
I can think of several people who this applies to.
2007-10-01 10:18:38 · answer #5 · answered by nremtohio 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I know a guy by the pseudonym of Juan Kerr who I think is like that.
2007-10-01 10:37:00 · answer #6 · answered by 99% Tater says: TAX THE RICH! 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've heard it. Their like a dog that's all bark and no bite. I know several people like that!
2007-10-01 10:34:49 · answer #7 · answered by Nemophilist 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope, never heard it. I do know someone like that. All talk and no action.
2007-10-01 10:25:28 · answer #8 · answered by Big Red 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes ive heard it and know quite a few like that
2007-10-01 10:18:21 · answer #9 · answered by bellatrix 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
YEP heard of that,
know plenty also
2007-10-01 10:39:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty much like that at closing time. Always losing my pants.
2007-10-01 11:37:59 · answer #11 · answered by Woodman 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋