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The phrase 'pair of trousers' is actually a corruption of 'pear of trousers' which comes from the fashion amongst Lombard merchants in renaissance Italy for wearing hose made entirely from pears.
( , Tue 21 May 2013, 7:48, 4 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

Pears ripen faster when placed next to bananas
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A peer of the realm is a bastardisation of early English "pear of the realm" when all aspiring lords would have a pear orchard to impress the pear obsessed queen Anne.
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