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When they sold out to Microsoft, Persson and his two partners trousered the dosh; the company’s other 30-odd employees had no equity so couldn’t cash in.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 1, 2015
It's not the instinctive emotional response when someone has just won their ninth Grand Slam title and trousered £1.8m in the process.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2015
That will give some comfort to Cisco, which trousered $46 billion of revenue in its latest fiscal year.
From Economist ● Dec. 13, 2012
Then the women of a chorus tug the shoes apart to reveal giant trousered legs — at the end of which sits Astaire.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2011
But the greatest moment of all was when the biggest hump broke like a small earthquake and out came the sloping back, the large, wise head, and the four baggy- trousered legs of an elephant.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
