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I like the way you look in them pants



 
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Sentence: she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes | A sms or An sms?
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I like the way you look in them pants #1 (permalink) Sat Apr 28, 2007 8:36 am   I like the way you look in them pants
 

Hi teachers,

This sentence is from the lyric of "Right Thurr" by Chingy.
I really don't understand the phrase "look in them pants"

Please explain it to me.

Thanks in advance

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I like the way you look in them pants #2 (permalink) Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:14 pm   I like the way you look in them pants
 

'Look in them pants' means 'look in those underpants/trousers'.

UK pants = underpants (in BrE)
US pants = trousers (in BrE)

The use of 'them' here is not standard.
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I like the way you look in them pants #3 (permalink) Sat Apr 28, 2007 14:18 pm   I like the way you look in them pants
 

Note that the use of the pronoun "them" for the possessive is nonstandard English and is stigmatized by most speakers. The preferred possessive pronoun there would be "those".
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I like the way you look in them pants #4 (permalink) Sat Apr 28, 2007 15:18 pm   I like the way you look in them pants
 

Jamie (K) wrote:
The preferred possessive pronoun there would be "those".


You must have meant 'demonstrative adjective', Jamie.
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