Dropped trou

[Writer61]

I have used this phrase in a WIP.

Do you understand it?

 

[AwkwardMD]

The real question is "How much Tenacious D have you heard?"

 

[crookedletter]

Yes.

Are you using it in dialogue? If you're concerned about the reader understanding it you could have a character need it explained.

If you're using it in narrative then presumably someone is dropping trou, so you could clear up any misunderstandings by describing the action. i.e. He dropped trou, letting his jeans fall to his ankles, and stood there in his boxers. Or whatever.

 

[IWroteThis]

I not only understand it; I've used it myself.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Like Marlon Brando, I dropped trou and mooned the little people below.

Different reference to that of Teanicous D, but still lets them know what's going on. I'll have to use it, some story know, yes, I'm a copycat mooner. Although I don't remember what Jack Black and Kyle Gass did when they dropped trou.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

 

[AwkwardMD]

Like Marlon Brando, I dropped trou and mooned the little people below.

Different reference to that of Teanicous D, but still lets them know what's going on. I'll have to use it, some story know, yes, I'm a copycat mooner. Although I don't remember what Jack Black and Kyle Gass did when they dropped trou.

They wanted us, the audience, to squeeze out a Cleveland Steamer on their chest.

 

[AwkwardMD]

TWO THREE FOUR

 

[Kumquatqueen]

I've used it in a story, but it was used somewhat ironically by or to a posh English person. I did ensure the next sentence explained the result: a bare arse.

 

[cw5523729]

I've heard the phrase many many times but I don't think I've ever seen it in print. Or if I did, it's not how I thought trou would be spelled. Though I don't know how I think it should be spelled instead either.

 

[MrPixel]

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/drop_trou
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/drop+trou
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=drop+trou

 

[TheLobster]

If you drop your trout, good manners dictate that you should pick it up, or else everything gets fishy.

That’s what you meant, right?

 

[cw5523729]

If you drop your trout, good manners dictate that you should pick it up, or else everything gets fishy.

That’s what you meant, right?

Plus someone might slip on it since they are slippery

 

[cw5523729]

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/drop_trou
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/drop+trou
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=drop+trou

Alternative forms​

• drop trow

At first that's how I imagined I'd spell it, but then would I pronounce it to rhyme with HOW or GROW?

English is crazy.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I haven't before, but now I think I have to.

 

[cw5523729]

I haven't before, but now I think I have to.

You've never dropped trou before? Where has it been going your whole life? You must be very constipated.

 

[Writer61]

The real question is "How much Tenacious D have you heard?"

The answer to that is absolutely nothing, at least AFAIK.

 

[Writer61]

Thanks, all.

Think I need to add an explanation.

 

[Britva415]

I don't. I think it 100% speaks for itself whether one has heard it before or not.

Maybe if one has never heard a casual improvised contraction before, then it could be obscure, but that's really factoring to lowest imaginable common denominators.

 

[IWroteThis]

Thanks, all.

Think I need to add an explanation.

Well, now that we have that one figured out, what about pressed hams?

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

It reminds me of the movie Snatch which makes me think it's even more appropriate for a Lit story.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Thanks, all.

Think I need to add an explanation.

I will confess that my grasp of current idiom is anything but current. For me, an explanation would probably be necessary.

 

[cw5523729]

It's 2025. Just add a poop emoji like all the kids do.

 

[Writer61]

I will confess that my grasp of current idiom is anything but current. For me, an explanation would probably be necessary.

Deffo not current.