The fancy-pants answer is a variety of villains who represent the myriad facets of the hero's psyche.From the 2nd paragraph of this article at Looper.
上記の文で、fancy-pantsの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "fancy-pants" mean?
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解答
意味：英辞郎によると、
〈俗〉気取った気づいた方もいると思いますが、これは前回のQuestion of the Day #710の問題文の次の文です。
Answer
According to Merriam-Webster:overly elegant or refined: LA-DI-DA
Examples
- I'd rather go to a ball game than another one of your fancy-pants corporate events.
- We don't need a fancy-pants vacuum, we just need one that can suck up dirt.
- Two decades ago, she moved to Massachusetts to become what she called a "fancy-pants professor at Harvard."
- Could Joe Biden's long-term skepticism of the newfangled, fancy-pants counterinsurgency techniques favored by retired General Petraeus now get traction?
- For the frugal-minded readers, the total cost of all the ingredients I used (including the same fancy-pants olive oil I made the mix with) came out to $4.21CDN.
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