Junior (secondary 1 and 2) boys wear light grey short trousers.
Men soon to die wanted to stay in short trousers.
He wore short brown trousers and a rather ugly green shirt.
Most boys wore short grey trousers until they were 10 or 11.
It happened twenty years ago, when you were still in short trousers.
He would also have been in short trousers at the time.
"I began to understand it when I was still in short trousers."
He would have been in short trousers in the 1930s.
And when State got wind of it they damned near wet their short trousers.
So for the first term I still had to go to school in short trousers.
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