Idiom – Ants in your pants

• Idiom – Ants in your pants
• Meaning – To be unable to sit still because you are excited or nervous about something.
• This is an easy idiom to remember! Just imagine how difficult it would be to sit still with hundreds of ants in your pants…

Usage:

When could you use this idiom?

• Someone is agitated and unable to sit still.
• A person is impatient and doesn’t want to sit down.
• A young child is overexcited about going somewhere and is very active.
• You are watching a nervous person move around restlessly in their chair.

Example:

• “Please calm down! Have you got ants in your pants? Your friends will arrive soon.”

 Discuss:

• Is there an idiom like this in your country?

What is an idiom?

An idiom is a word or phrase that is not taken literally.  An idiom is an expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its individual words, but has a separate meaning of its own.