Your big-boy pants

[Jonathan Lighter]

Philip Mudd, ex-CIA analyst, on CNN re Bergdahl:

"As I said in the past, you gotta strap your big-boy pants on, 'cause there
ain't no good decisions!"

SWAG: suggested by the checked pants of the Big Boy Restaurant Big Boy.

And "You're a big boy now."

271,000 raw hits for "your big boy pants on."

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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