liar, liar, pants on fire

A Chant normally used by children to indicate they think someone is lying.
The full phrase is "Liar, liar, pants on fire. Hangin' on a telephone wire".
It is a paraphrase form an 1810 poem by William Blake titled "The Liar".

Liar Liar Pants On Fire is a phrase that children like to scream at each other whenever they think the other is lying. They also like to scream it at adults who tell them stories about fairies. It is an overall stupid thing to say, since if your pants actually caught on fire when you lied, more politicians would be dead.

"Liar Liar Pants On Fire" is a playground taunt that is used to indicate each other whenever they think the other is lying.

It refers to the fact "fibbing" is consider naughty, and pants/bottom 'on fire' is an euphemism for spanking.

In my experience when I was growing up," Liar Liar Pants On Fire" refereed to the ass whipping you would get if your parents caught you lying.You felt like your pants were on fire afterwards

Being from newfoundland, we have a strong British heritage. I always understood it to be a reference to witches burning at the stake. Your pants or skirts would be the first thing to catch fire.

" teller of untruths, your trousers have combusted." <- greatest translation error ever!!!!

A little sentence that kids in elementary school uses to say that your lying.For example,you say that your mom is ARIANA GRANDE and everyone knows that its fake right,so the kids would come at you saying"PFF,LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE"and then run away from you.Its more like a term used to say that youre obviously lying and they are mocking of that fact.