put one's pants on one leg at a time

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put one's pants on one leg at a time (third-person singular simple present puts one's pants on one leg at a time, present participle putting one's pants on one leg at a time, simple past and past participle put one's pants on one leg at a time)

  1. (idiomatic) To be an ordinary person; to be a mere mortal.
    Remember, he puts his pants on one leg at a time, just like you.
    • 2000 April 8, “More Cowbell”, in Saturday Night Live, season 25, episode 6 (television series), spoken by The Bruce Dickinson (Christopher Walken):
      Easy guys, I put my pants on just like the rest of you, one leg at a time…except, once my pants are on, I make gold records.
    • 2000, Stephen King, “First Foreword”, in On Writing:
      One night while we were eating Chinese before a gig in Miami Beach, I asked Amy if there was any one question she was never asked during the Q-and-A that follows almost every writer's talk—that question you never get to answer when you're standing in front of a group of author-struck fans and pretending you don't put your pants on one leg at a time like everyone else.

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