"put one's pants on one leg at a time" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts one's pants on one leg at a time",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting one's pants on one leg at a time",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put one's pants on one leg at a time",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put one's pants on one leg at a time",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "put<,,put> one's pants on one leg at a time"
      },
      "expansion": "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)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Remember, he puts his pants on one leg at a time, just like you.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000 April 8, “More Cowbell”, in Saturday Night Live, season 25, episode 6 (television series), spoken by The Bruce Dickinson (Christopher Walken)",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Stephen King, “First Foreword”, in On Writing",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be an ordinary person; to be a mere mortal."
      ],
      "id": "en-put_one's_pants_on_one_leg_at_a_time-en-verb-IGB183XN",
      "links": [
        [
          "ordinary",
          "ordinary"
        ],
        [
          "mere",
          "mere"
        ],
        [
          "mortal",
          "mortal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To be an ordinary person; to be a mere mortal."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "put one's trousers on one leg at a time"
        },
        {
          "word": "put on one's pants one leg at a time"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "be an ordinary person",
          "word": "olla vain ihminen"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "be an ordinary person",
          "word": "chier comme tout le monde"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "be an ordinary person",
          "word": "auch nur mit Wasser kochen"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-put one's pants on one leg at a time.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5c/En-au-put_one%27s_pants_on_one_leg_at_a_time.ogg/En-au-put_one%27s_pants_on_one_leg_at_a_time.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/En-au-put_one%27s_pants_on_one_leg_at_a_time.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "put one's pants on one leg at a time"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts one's pants on one leg at a time",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting one's pants on one leg at a time",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put one's pants on one leg at a time",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put one's pants on one leg at a time",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "put<,,put> one's pants on one leg at a time"
      },
      "expansion": "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)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Remember, he puts his pants on one leg at a time, just like you.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000 April 8, “More Cowbell”, in Saturday Night Live, season 25, episode 6 (television series), spoken by The Bruce Dickinson (Christopher Walken)",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Stephen King, “First Foreword”, in On Writing",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be an ordinary person; to be a mere mortal."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ordinary",
          "ordinary"
        ],
        [
          "mere",
          "mere"
        ],
        [
          "mortal",
          "mortal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To be an ordinary person; to be a mere mortal."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-put one's pants on one leg at a time.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5c/En-au-put_one%27s_pants_on_one_leg_at_a_time.ogg/En-au-put_one%27s_pants_on_one_leg_at_a_time.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/En-au-put_one%27s_pants_on_one_leg_at_a_time.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "put one's trousers on one leg at a time"
    },
    {
      "word": "put on one's pants one leg at a time"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "be an ordinary person",
      "word": "olla vain ihminen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "be an ordinary person",
      "word": "chier comme tout le monde"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "be an ordinary person",
      "word": "auch nur mit Wasser kochen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "put one's pants on one leg at a time"
}