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I will be in my lean and slipper'd pantaloon cackling at the absurdity of it all.
I hope when I finally grow up that I will become a Real Old Person | Tim Lott 2011
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Lean and slipper'd pantaloon, Paul McArtney, cost himself £25 million by his infatuation with hard faced tart Heather Mills.
Archive 2007-10-21 Newmania 2007
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Lean and slipper'd pantaloon, Paul McArtney, cost himself £25 million by his infatuation with hard faced tart Heather Mills.
They have their exits,… Newmania 2007
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The sixth age shifts into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, with spectacles on nose and pouch on side; his youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide for his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, turning again towards childish treble, pipes and whistles in his sound.
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The sixth age shifts into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, with spectacles on nose and pouch on side; his youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide for his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, turning again towards childish treble, pipes and whistles in his sound.
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Because families are having fewer children, people are living longer (and retiring earlier), and because the roughly twenty-year-long bulge of births that we call the baby boom has reached the fifth of Shakespeare's seven stages and will soon arrive at the lean and slipper'd pantaloon.
On Golden Pond Solow, Robert M. 1999
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While the city of the Medici is receding from its crumbling walls, like the human form shrinking into “the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,” the Queen of the Adriatic sleeping on her muddy isles, and Rome itself is only to be traced by fallen temples and buried columns, the youthful vigor of America is fast covering the wilds of the West with the happiest fruits of human industry.
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Especially a stage that might be characterized as a slipper'd pantaloon.
NYT > Home Page By BRUCE BARCOTT 2010
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a lean and slipper'd panataloon "I could wave two fingers at Jack Frost and cry,"
DUFF & NONSENSE! 2009
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