Meaning
to be extremely boring or uninteresting to someone else.
Examples
Spending the weekend with my in-laws really bored the pants off me.
Not only do my grandfather’s good-old-days stories bore the pants off me but he also tells the same stories over and over again.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What does the idiom ‘bore the pants off’ mean?
The idiom ‘bore the pants off’ means “to deal with a difficult situation without being harmed or damaged”
How do you use ‘bore the pants off’ in a sentence?
Example usage of idiom ‘bore the pants off’: Newspapers have weathered the storm of online information by providing news online themselves.