"pull up your pants" meaning in All languages combined

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Phrase [English]

Etymology: A reference to sagging among African-Americans, and its associated moral panic. Head templates: {{head|en|phrase}} pull up your pants
  1. (US, informal, attributive) A reference to respectability politics, especially with regard to African-Americans. Tags: US, attributive, informal Categories (topical): Politics
    Sense id: en-pull_up_your_pants-en-phrase-dGXM0BbA Disambiguation of Politics: 100 0 Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 82 18 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 86 14 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 95 5
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull up, pants.
    Sense id: en-pull_up_your_pants-en-phrase-renmm9KG
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          "text": "Over at NewsOne, Donovan X. Ramsey contrasted two approaches President Obama has taken with black audiences: 1) the finger-wagging, pull-up-your-pants approach that he often takes with African-Americans, like the graduates at all-male Morehouse College [...]",
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          "ref": "2020 June 12, “I Am Not Your Negro review: race, rage and the American Dream”, in Sight and Sound, archived from the original on 2020-06-24:",
          "text": "A particularly jarring instance is the pairing of a blasé industrial film titled The Land We Love (1966) with footage of the Watts riots in 1965, and seeing, in addition to the absence of black faces in the former, how the American Dream is a wonderful dream but is also used as a nightstick to beat those who have been systemically prevented from enjoying it. (See also: the ‘pull up your pants’/All Lives Matter crowd.)",
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