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breath and britches

noun

Definitions

  1. The minimal qualities that make one a person (especially a man), either

    • […] San Antonio Mexicans named Cisco and Pancho, both in black-market sombreros. They were skinny—all breath and britches—and short-timers, soon to go home.

  2. A man of no substance.

    • “[…] Ah don’t want no trashy nigger, no breath-and-britches, lak Johnny Taylor usin’ yo’ body to wipe his foots on.”

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA