“Wouldn’t you like a partner in crime? Someone to cover for you every now and again? Just someone to talk to about whatever?” “Sure you do,” Ron said, blocking the door with his body. “I don’t need help.” Harry summoned his coat and made for the door. “It’s not nothing,” said Ron, grabbing Harry’s arm to detain him.
Let’s go, everyone is probably waiting on us anyway.” “It’s nothing!” Harry shoved the parchments into a folder and dumped them in a drawer. I know all your habits and you’re acting weird. And you’ve been hiding to shower and dress after training.” You’ve always got a goofy grin on your face. Going off at all hours, even during work. Like the set of fingerprint bruises on his biceps. He tried not to look guilty as he mentally catalogued his appearance to be sure nothing unusual was showing. “I’m not acting weird,” Harry said, immediately tense and alert. You’ve been acting… a little off lately.” “I’ll wait.” He kicked at the floor to make his chair spin circles as though he was a six year old, instead of a twenty-five year old Auror. Ron plopped down in Johnston’s empty chair. I told Johnston he could go home early and I’d take care of it.” Harry shuffled some parchment around with a grimace. equivalent is get one’s panties in a twist/bunch/knot, reflecting the fact that panties is a close synonym of knickers.“Ready to go yet?” Ron asked as he poked his head into Harry’s office. Knickers appears in a few British idioms, including most commonly get one’s knickers in a twist (or bunch or knot), which means “to get overly upset” and is typically used in a rude command not to do that.
Knickers can also be used in a general way to mean “ panties.” More informally, it can also refer to the kind of short-legged underwear often called boyshorts. Sometimes, the word specifically refers to a kind of loose-fitting underwear similar to bloomers (knickerbocker-like pants once worn by women in the U.S. But in the U.K., knickers are always underwear. Knickers is a short way of referring to the pants called knickerbockers. (Eventually, it became a nickname for anyone from New York and, much later, the name of a New York basketball team). The word knickerbocker became a nickname for the descendants of those settlers and for the type of pants they traditionally wore.
Knickerbockers got their name from Diedrich Knickerbocker, the fictional author of Washington Irving’s A History of New York (1809), in part of which he chronicles the history of Dutch settlers in America. It is a shortened form of knickerbockers, a type of baggy breeches fastened at the knee. The first records of knickers referring to clothing come from the late 1800s. Knickers has quite a twisted word history.
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