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I was browsing my favourite forum and was reading the ebay horror stories when i came across the phrase "panties in a wad". Probably a slang in AmE but never heard of it before. I think i watch too little American TV!



You can read what happened by clicking on the picture to make it bigger but to simplify the story, what transpired between buyer and seller was that the buyer didn't want to complete the deal out of ebay in case it happens to be a scam because she won't be protected by ebay/paypal. So, she didn't reply the seller and when the seller emailed her to tell buyer off for wasting her time, buyer explained ebay rules and said that seller has got her "panties in a wad".

From the context, i deduced that buyer said seller had her "panties in a wad" because seller was being bitchy and pissy as if she (sorry to sound crude) had a wedgie and was feeling uncomfortable like she had something between her ass.

To see if my interpretation was right, i googled "panties in a wad" and realized that it wasn't. "Panties in a wad" means:

urbandictionary.com：

panties in a wad 118 up, 6 down to get all upset over something trivial, as if one's underwear has rolled up into an uncomfortable ball between one's butt cheeks Cheri: "Did you see what he did to my iPod? I can't believe he put that song on there." Bobbi: "Oh don't get your panties in a wad over it, you can always take it off."

And wordreference forum even showed a similar expression in British English which is "to get one's knickers in a twist".

I can't wait to use this expression to replace making a mountain out of a molehill!