1992, Richard Hoggart, An Imagined Life: Life and Times, Volume III: 1959-91, Chatto & Windus (1992), →ISBN, page 265:
She is in many ways my Aunt Ethel come back to life. I was brought up with, precisely, hauntingly, that shrill, nagging, over-insistent way of speaking, that bossy-pants way of walking, that remorseless insistence on always being right.
2006, Anne Grace, The Perfect Stranger, Berkley Sensation (2006), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
She pulled off the paper and looked at what he'd bought her, what the horrid, arrogant, boot-burning, bossy pants had bought her.
2008, Jeff Alexander, A TV Guide to Life: How I Learned Everything I Needed to Know from Watching Television, Berkley (2008), →ISBN, page 97:
However, since each show features a network honcho named Jack, each of whom is a deceptively hard-nosed bossy pants with a secret soft spot for some of his respective show's other characters, that's probably something you can take to the bank.
Lol. I'm getting you food, bossy pants. Be there in twenty.
2013, Rosemary Budd, Inspector Paws and the Wonders of Europe, iUniverse (2013), →ISBN, page 74:
“And old bossy pants here won't let me.”
2013, Nicole Knepper, Moms Who Drink and Swear: True Tales of Loving My Kids While Losing My Mind, New American Library (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
She really was a good baby, quiet and polite, unlike her jackass, bossy-pants brother, Nick.
