Origin: One can easily imagine where this saying came from. What if you had ants in your pants? You would find it difficult to settle down. You'd keep squirming to get rid of the ants.
Example: "You never sit still. You must have ants in your pants."
If someone has ants in their pants, it means they are excited, agitated or worried and can't keep still.
For example, "She has ants in her pants because she is going to Europe tomorrow." means she is very excited to go to Europe.
"John has ants in his pants because his teacher wanted to speak to his mother." means that John is worried as his teacher is speaking to his mother.
The expression "ants in your pants" appears to be of United States origin, very likely of the southern states, though that is uncertain because by the time that it appeared in print, probably some time between the two world wars, it had already been in wide use in various contexts. It could mean "active", or "restless", or "getting going" or "having a problem", anything suggestive of someone who has sat down among a colony of a stinging, biting species of ant and got them up his trouser legs. He cannot sit still, and he is likely to want to do practically anything in a hurry, even get his pants off, to deal with the problem at once.
The idiom is the source of a nice traditional mnemonic:
to remember whether in caves the stalactites or stalagmites go up or down,
think of ants in pants --
the mites go up and the tights go down.
You will start jumping around or dancing around?
You have ants in your pants.
It means agitated or nervous.
It means agitated or nervous
Ants in your pants
Ants in the pants means that someone can't sit still. Imagine if they actually had ants crawling around inside their pants! You might also say someone was bouncing off the walls, or couldn't sit still.
this phrase could be used all around the world
Ants in the Pants was created in 1969.
The duration of Ants in Your Pants is 1380.0 seconds.
if you had ants in your pants you would be squirming about. You would be a fidget, cannt sit stillIt could also mean that you are very excited or your jumping around like your trying to get something out of your pants.== == Not really, the term means to be fidgety, or very excited.
Ants in Your Pants was created on 1997-11-01.
Ants in Your Pants ended on 2008-02-27.
P"ants." The word "pants" is the noun for the items you wear on your legs, but it has the word "ants" in it.
I just read a children's book called "Grandma Calls Me Beautiful" and there is a sentence that says, "Sometimes Mama says I have minnows under my skin."
ants in youre pants
Mary couldn't sit still during the movie, she had ants in her pants the whole time.