Wiktionary
alt. (context idiomatic English) a (forceful) reminder to start or get going n. (context idiomatic English) a (forceful) reminder to start or get going
Usage examples of "kick in the pants".
The only thing you can do in the collective sense is to shake them up periodically, give 'em a revolutionary kick in the pants.
She doesn't need any kick in the pants, and once we get to the split down here a ways there aren't any turnoffs we need concern ourselves with for thirty kilometers or more, so she'll just plod right along.
I was rather in the position of a child who runs to his mother hoping for approval and endorsement of something he's done, and is awarded instead a brusque kick in the pants.
The only compensation given was a swift kick in the pants and the good fortune to have survived the war.
I gave Reynard a swift kick in the pants, and the thief reluctantly handed over the golden nugget, which seemed to mean more to the dwarf than our words of praise.
But the field of sub-atomic studies was looking increasingly mined out, and the quantum Standard Model had not had a good paradigm-shattering kick in the pants in some time.
It got a kick in the pants a few years back when we had that drought and all the fancy restaurants stopped serving water with dinner.