Trouser

//ˈtɹaʊzɚ//

"Trouser" in a Sentence (18 examples)

In the 1980s an opera production of "Hansel and Gretel" caused a furor because the part of the Witch was played by a man; nobody seemed to care that the part of Hansel, a trouser role, was played by a woman.

The flat front trouser was a staple of that fashion designer's collections.

Standing at the cash desk and feeling for his wallet, Tom discovered to his horror that his trouser pocket was empty.

Tom rolled up his trouser legs, making his bright red socks visible.

She wore a navy trouser suit and a cream blouse.

Hebden Bridge used to be known as 'Trouser Town', a nickname acquired because of the predominance of factories which made trousers in the town.

It's not in your trouser pocket. Where else could your purse be?

trouser leg

And this is our linen trouser, sir.

Your aunt told him to pack Upjohn's bags, and the first thing he saw when he smacked into it was the speech. He trousered it and brought it along to me.

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Barr, 34, trousered the money from the pub in Lugton, Ayrshire, between January 2016 and February 2018.

Politicians know how to look after themselves. Derry Irvine, Blair’s old boss, trousered a pension fund worth £2.3 million after just five years as Lord Chancellor - all courtesy of the tax payer.

Andy Prendergast, national secretary of the GMB union, said: “To see the boss of Shell trouser more than £6million while bills are crippling families and countries scrabble around trying to ditch Russian gas is abhorrent.

The founder and boss of CMC Markets is set to trouser £20million via the company’s dividend payments, even as the group’s profits and revenue fall.

Worse still, the driving motivation for all too many of the bosses of water companies appears to be not to improve the environment or to secure London’s water supply but rather to trouser obscene salaries and bonuses

The whopping sum will now be up for grabs on Tuesday when punters will have another chance to trouser the lifechanging amount.

A small piece of the Stone of Destiny broke off during the operation at Westminster Abbey — and Ian's son, Jamie Hamilton, still has it. / "My father had the presence of mind to trouser it and got it set in a brooch, and gave the brooch to my mother," Jamie says.

As an example, in the final three months of 2022 (usually a fallow period for airlines), Ryanair trousered a comfortable £222 million in profits - essentially £2m per day.

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