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Clothing Idioms

The missing words in these idioms are things that you wear.
Some answers are plural
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Last updated: December 2, 2019
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First submittedAugust 6, 2013
Times taken30,439
Average score72.7%
Rating4.30
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Idiom
Hit below the belt
Put on one's thinking cap
Ace up one's sleeve
Throw one's hat into the ring
Has deep pockets
Die with one's boots on
Hot under the collar
Handle with kid gloves
Idiom
Get one's knickers in a twist
Fly by the seat of one's pants
The shirt off one's back
The shoe is on the other foot
Knock one's socks off
Black tie event
Bee in one's bonnet
Idiom
Wearing one's birthday suit
Off the cuff remark
Riding someone else's coattails
Too big for one's britches
Pull oneself up by the bootstraps
On a shoestring budget
Cute as a button
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Level 44
Sep 11, 2013
3:01
+6
Level 60
May 11, 2016
You, sir (or ma'am), are cool. Very, very cool.
+3
Level 95
Jul 31, 2017
18:43 left, and I'm not even born yet!
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Level 43
Aug 30, 2018
3.05
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Level 51
Feb 23, 2024
me too! britches and coattails slowed me down
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Level 22
Sep 11, 2013
bootstrap is sort of glitchy.
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Level 82
May 11, 2016
No it's not. You probably were typing it in and got credit for boots before you finished.
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Level 85
Apr 17, 2014
pretty easy quiz except for the knickers, never heard that one before. got 100% with 1:42 left after researching the knickers answer.
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Level 74
Dec 15, 2015
researching aka cheating...
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Level 40
Jul 27, 2020
You haven't heard of knickers in a twist?!
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Level 55
May 11, 2016
A lot of these have more vulgar versions that I'm more familiar with.
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Level 71
May 13, 2016
Your living in the past Boedicea
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Level 82
May 11, 2016
I think "die with ones boots on" might be the least guessed answer here... it's the only one I never heard before... except that if you know "bootstraps" you will also get boots.
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Level 75
May 11, 2016
You must not have watched too many old Westerns. Cowboys always want to "die with their boots on". Shoestring was the one I missed. I've always heard of "living on a shoestring", but never a shoestring budget. The budget part threw me.
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Level 79
May 11, 2016
Conversely, had it not said "budget" I probably would never had gotten it. That's the only way I've ever heard it.
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Level 22
May 11, 2016
They should accept shoelace for shoestring because it's called shoelace in Australia
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Level 82
May 3, 2019
... but I know shoestring budget from (Australian!) Lonely Planet's guidebook series called "____ on a shoestring". And do you say "shoelace budget" then?
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Level 68
Mar 28, 2020
Plus there’s a movie titled “They died with their boots on” starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland.
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Level 75
Feb 12, 2024
You misunderstand: if kalbutterscotch hasn't heard of it, it doesn't exist.
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Level 60
May 11, 2016
Jimmy James:

I think we should just die with our boots on.

Dave:

Sir, what are you talking about?

Jimmy James:

Oh, I don't know. I was just trying to get you guys to notice my new boots.

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Level 58
Jan 2, 2017
Die with ones boots on means dying while doing what you love, or while doing your duty, or dying like a *man*.
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Level 66
Oct 1, 2019
We have a saying that translate to dying in the saddle, which basically means the same thing.
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Level 66
Mar 28, 2020
Also die in the harnas.
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Level 66
May 16, 2023
There's also a fairly popular recent pop country song with the chorus, "I'm going out with my boots on" - 8m views on youtube
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Level 51
Feb 23, 2024
I always put my boots on before going out. I thought it was the usual thing to do.
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Level 83
May 11, 2016
I've only ever heard "too big for one's boots". Think britches is an American thing.
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Level 55
May 11, 2016
I've heard both, but tried boots first (I'm in the US).
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Level 66
Oct 1, 2019
That is what I thought! But well, it gave me the other one..
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Level 62
Sep 9, 2020
Yeah I didn't know 'die with one's boots on', so trying it here and getting that one confused me
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Level 61
May 11, 2016
My first reaction was "jock." Should've known it was coattails.
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Level 66
May 13, 2016
An older (but original) version of kid gloves was 'kit' gloves, named after the soft fur of baby rabbits or foxes, called kits.
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Level 58
Jan 2, 2017
But kid gloves come from baby goats, right?
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Level 69
May 19, 2016
Wow, Australian here, haven't ever heard of a fair few of these, and it includes some of the most common ones. Big time regional variation there.
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Level 25
Oct 9, 2016
Isn't it get your knickers in a knot?
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Level 68
Oct 16, 2016
On a tight budget could work, right, like a pair of tights?
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Level 66
Oct 1, 2019
I like that one! though maybe it is not really seen as an idiom?
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Level 76
Mar 28, 2020
I don't think so, because one doesn't wear a tight.
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Level 63
Mar 7, 2017
Once again surprised by some of These. Where I'm from instead of kid gloves it's velvet gloves.
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Level 53
Dec 31, 2017
It's definitely "too big for one's boots".
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Level 83
Mar 28, 2020
"Too big for one's boots" is a common expression. At least, in the UK.
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Level 83
Mar 28, 2020
Just realised I'd already commented this when previously taking the quiz a few years back, haha.
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Level 75
Mar 28, 2020
I watch a lot of British TV and I was hoping to see "pop one's clogs" or "clever clogs".
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Level 28
Apr 4, 2022
I only missed "bootstraps" because i didn't put an "s" at the end of the word. you should just accept "bootstrap" for "bootstraps"
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Level 77
Oct 17, 2022
I took a long time before I thought to try it plural.
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Level 83
Dec 22, 2022
I tried bootlaces first. I think that may be more common in the UK.
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Level 57
May 26, 2022
Very good quiz!
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Level 77
Oct 17, 2022
Funny enough I only got boot because of the bootstraps one.