What does the phrase “Don’t get your knickers in a twist” mean?
I heard it many times and was curious as to what it meant. And does knickers refer to women’s undergarments? Thanks!
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I heard it many times and was curious as to what it meant. And does knickers refer to women’s undergarments? Thanks!
February 8th, 2010 at 6:47 pm
don’t have a cow/ flip a wig
February 8th, 2010 at 6:50 pm
Chill out / relax / stop freaking out about this / don’t get so worked up about this…
February 8th, 2010 at 6:56 pm
Have you ever had a wedgie? If your knickers get twisted, you get one — and you act cranky.
The phrase means “Stop being cranky.”
February 8th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
don’t get ur panties in a bunch.
Don’t be so oversensitive
February 8th, 2010 at 11:48 pm
British version of “Don’t get your panties in a bunch”
February 9th, 2010 at 1:22 am
its another way to say “dont get your panties in a bunch”
in other words, dont get mad so easily about things
February 9th, 2010 at 1:49 am
Hey man, if you started ripping my pubes out w/ my twisted undergarments….I would be aggravated. YeeeeOuch.
February 9th, 2010 at 1:51 am
Ranto hit it on the nose.
February 9th, 2010 at 2:29 am
knickers=underwear
February 9th, 2010 at 2:31 am
its the same thing as “dont get your panties all in a bunch”
February 9th, 2010 at 3:34 am
In the United Kingdom, Ireland and some fellow Commonwealth nations, knickers is a word for women’s undergarments: “Don’t get your knickers in a twist” (i.e., “don’t get all hot under the collar,” or, in U.S. usage, “don’t get your panties in a bunch.” Australian usage is “don’t get your knickers in a knot” or “twist”). George Cruikshank, whose illustrations are classic icons for Charles Dickens’ works, also did the illustrations for Washington Irving’s droll History of New York (published in 1809) when it was published in London. He showed the old-time Knickerbockers, Irving’s fictitious Dutch colonial family, in their loose knee-length Dutch breeches. Consequently, by 1859 relatively short loose ladies’ undergarments, a kind of abbreviated version of pantalettes or pantaloons, were known as “knickers” in England.
There are now many names for the undergarments that previously have been called knickers, such as panties, thongs, g-strings, briefs, shorts, tangas, etc.
Note that while the term ‘knickers’ refers almost exclusively to women’s underwear, ‘knicks’, knick-knacks’ and similar more masculine variations are acceptable monikers for men’s underwear, particularly for young boys.
Other uses
The appellation “Tarty Knickers” has come to be applied to women who dress in a way which is ostentatious or sexually provocative.
http://www.answers.com/topic/knickers
http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/26/messages/1267.html
http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/53/messages/1047.html
http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/26/messages/1262.html
February 9th, 2010 at 3:39 am
Dont get upset / agitated
Knickers are underpants for men or women
February 9th, 2010 at 4:20 am
Try not to act like you have sand in your heehaw.