have ants in your pants
-ant
suffix
(also-ent)uk / -ənt/ us / -ənt/
(a person or thing) performing or causing the stated action: 进行…动作的人；起…作用的人（或物）；促进…作用的事物
assistant助手
participant参加者
disinfectant消毒剂
an expectant look期盼的神情
a defiant child不服管教的孩子

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Acting and acts
(your) every moveidiom
-ation
act
act for someone
act/do something on your own responsibilityidiom
ADL
agency
beat
er
execution
exercise in something
exploit
move
put your money where your mouth isidiom
responsibility
role-play
rot
step
stuff
talk

ant | American Dictionary

ant
noun[ C ]
us/ænt/
a small insect that lives in large and highly organized social groups

Examples of ant

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Extensive studies in the surrounding forest by the authors confirmed that epiphytes occur only occasionally on ant and termite substrate other than ant gardens.
We documented the level of ant herbivory in treefall gaps and the surrounding forest understorey in old-growth and secondary forests.
Why are leaf-cutting ants more common in early secondary forests than in old-growth tropical forests?
These ants were found to be less inclined to transport bait particles than their larger nestmates.
During the day, some ants regularly walked all over inflorescence at all stages and even entered inside open spathes.
Mistakes are rare, since only in one case, were two wasp larvae (both first stage) found in a single ant.
Generalist predators, such as spiders, ants and ladybirds, occurred on the willows but were never observed attacking the eggs.
Attempts were made to determine if other behaviour differences, aside from the ' host assembly ' phenomena, occurred between infected and noninfected ants.
All individual ants collected at seed baits carrying seeds were measured.
Sampling was conducted using ground and baited arboreal pitfall traps, and yielded a total of 95 ant species.
By locating and following foragers rather than using baits, we were able to track the normal home ranges of the ants.
Other workers in the vicinity of the ant being chased would often attempt to catch the wasps.
Ants and ant parts were found in the stomachs of deer mice at the fox pen site (12.1%) and the campground site (11.2%).
There was no detectable difference in the percentage of deer mice that ingested ants at the fox pen site and campground site.
Raiding and other outstanding phenomena in the behavior of army ants.
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