Words at Play : Words We Don't Hear Anymore
Definition:
: breeches, trousers
About the Word:
A variation on breeches, an old word for trousers or pants, britches isn't a word you're likely to see on clothes racks these days. But the word persists in the idiom too big for one's britches – still as applicable today as ever.
That phrase refers to someone who has an exaggerated sense of their own importance, position, or abilities; and with bosses today complaining about millennials who think they can be CEO after a month on the job, we just might see this term come back into vogue.
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