What is "long trousers"

Usage examples of "long trousers".

Bernhard was in his mid-thirties with a deeply lined face, dressed like an American with a short-sleeved shirt and narrow-legged long trousers made from a material Georg didn't recognize.

How swift and brave and graceful in his long trousers with bicycle-clips around them and his scarlet school cap at a jaunty angle on his head!

One day, I told myself, one glorious day I will have a bike like that and I will wear long trousers with bicycle-clips and my school cap will sit jaunty on my head and I will go whizzing down the hill pedalling backwards with no hands on the handlebars!

Watching him marshal his hosts of friends, being asked to tick off the Harrods toy catalogue on December ist, dressed up by his mother like a spruce three-foot adult (he and I had switched from short to long trousers the same year: I was thirteen, he was four).

It was as though our glorious congress was turning out to be more than another of the toys of childhood, as though long trousers were destroying what midnight had created….

Ramses had graduated to long trousers that yearthe sudden elongation of his lower limbs having made that decision advisable on aesthetic if no other groundsand with his curly hair brushed into a rampant crest, he resembled a critical stork.

Haven't you got a pair of long trousers and a long-seeved windcheater?

Charlie could see as he glanced around the tables that many of the younger staff and Daniel, who was wearing long trousers for the first time just didn't believe the old soldier.

God will not be merciful to him who through vanity wears long trousers, she tells me (a Muslim teaching).