In the Charles Dickens' play, all the young boys wore knickers and suspenders.    From LearnThat.org. 

For his final event, Lodwick competed in knickers, a Norwegian ski club sweater and a necktie.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Athlete of the Week Landis breaks from cycling pack] Reference

Would it be fair to say she is a pig in knickers?? on December 21, 2007 at 3: 24 pm | Reply Stocking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Platform Two for Metro City « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference

I think that buying coloured knickers is perhaps a metaphor for my larger state of mind at the moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The One With The Big Changes Afoot] Reference

Happy to see the tradition of Hannah Spearrit in her knickers is being continued. #primeval The Egyptian stuff ... wince.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tweets I have known] Reference

Though I don't quote lyrics in this chapter, the song they dance to in their knickers is called Sway and it's the Julie London version.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insomnia is Good for Something] Reference

PS I had a look for a picture of aman in knickers by way of humour. .yeeeesh, Bough was clearly not alone in his peculiar predelictions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Come Backs More Absurd] Reference

Why has it not learnt that while 'knickers' is a word, 'logaless; isn't.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference

I'll be the only person in South Dakota using the word 'knickers' in a phrase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blimey, Somebody Call 999!] Reference

Or you might put your "knickers" in the bag, and wear the coat and waistcoat with long trousers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men] Reference

Let me clarify that "knickers" is a technical term for fencing pants, not a Britishism for underwear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

Oh, wait a minute again, I get it now: "knickers" is what the Brits call women's panties!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living with Legends: Hotel Chelsea Blog] Reference

Delighted Mrs Cawston, of Fourways, Main Road, said: "The knickers are a tiger design in green and white.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"Why, Betty," she said, "lots of city women who do their own housework don 'knickers' or gymnasium suits to work in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference

The little boys wear short jackets and long knickers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference

 She fingered the laces of his plaid flannel knickers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parallel Structures] Reference

Ms. DICKINSON: Just in case you get your knickers in a twist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rapper Ice-T Takes A Quiz On Pantyhose] Reference

"Wait till she sees Bobby's knickers," chuckled Dora Lockwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause] Reference

His knickers had dried upon him, but his coat was still very damp.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girls of St. Olave's] Reference

She, laughing: "Oh, you're going to come back as a pair of knickers!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hanging Up Is Hard To Do] Reference

Why do you earth science geniuses get your knickers in a twist over dirt?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annie Spiegelman: What's Dirt Got to Do With It? Interview With a Soil Scientist!] Reference

I live well, I've had acclaim, I've had girls take off their knickers for me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Player Returns] Reference

The sight of Pa training his star made the apprentices shake in their knickers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bill-Toppers] Reference

They've been prancing around in knickers on Fifth Avenue most of their lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 30, 2007] Reference

"Bankers" are to the theatre what "knickers" used to be: they elicit an instant roar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caledonia; The Gospel at Colonus; Vieux Carré] Reference

I'm amazed at how many people get their knickers in a twist when you don't wear a tie.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 25, 2009] Reference

He had a NATO summit, and we went to Paris, and Nancy Reagan came out in the knickers outfit.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2004] Reference

From the standard British English of pants, meaning underwear; also a variation on 'knickers'. E.g. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [WoW.com] Reference

Later on, when performing, they would be entitled to a celluloid collar, satinette knickers and pumps.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bill-Toppers] Reference

Last week Britain reveled in news that Prince Philip asked a Toronto reporter if she wore "mink knickers.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Knicker Snickers] Reference

And if I would not age, I could not fold my life up neatly near its end like old knickers, I could not die.    From Wordnik.com.  [Off the record] Reference

However, quite what leopard-print shoes say about the state of one's knickers, I really wouldn't like to say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is it OK to wear animal print in autumn?] Reference

The closest they came was when one evening she arrived at a party with her knickers visible through an unruly underskirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Konnie Huq's growing pains] Reference

Why, it's almost as good as the rule I learned at a picnic last weekend which goes, quite simply, "red shoes, no knickers".    From Wordnik.com.  [Is it OK to wear animal print in autumn?] Reference

The pictures were taken in Day's flat in Soho, London, and showed Moss looking tired, with tights pulled over her knickers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corinne Day: Pioneer of a new kind of beauty] Reference

It's a much slower burn than its predecessors, which quickly introduced you to the mayhem that has twisted its critics 'knickers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Mayhem and Murder] Reference