Conservation of art MA – VB and notes

To infill is used when material is used to fill or block a hole or space, eg in building work. It is also used here concerning a piece of paper-based art with a hole in it. This is a specialist term you may rarely need – as opposed to the phrasal verb to fill in = to add information to complete eg a form / an application. You may have to fill in a medical record if you can register at a doctor’s. To fill in = also informal for to inform someone about sth. eg "Can you just fill me in on her background?" = "Can you tell me some details about her experience / interest / knowledge / career?"
How come? is informal, meaning roughly ‘why’.
eg ? How come you arrived late = why did you arrive late / what was it that made you arrive late / what happened that made you arrive late
eg "I really disliked the people I worked with." "How come?" = Why (was that)? For what reason(s)?
It’s not for me = It’s not the sort of thing that interests me.
Pants (always plural) are a shortened form of ‘underpants’ and can describe underwear for a man or a woman, as can ‘briefs‘. If you were checking your luggage for an overnight stay you might check you had a clean pair of pants – that would be just one, single item. ‘Some clean pants / briefs‘ could (confusingly) be just one or hundreds, for use either by a boy / man, a girl or a woman. On the other hand ‘Y-fronts‘ are only worn by boys / men, and knickers are only worn by girls / women.

Trousers, tracksuit bottoms and pyjamas all follow the same pattern as the underwear above.
In recent years the word ‘pants‘ has sometimes been used in informal conversation to mean ‘nonsense’ or rubbish, useless, no good. eg "What was the film like?" "It was pants (= terrible, dreadful, awful)."
To poke fun AT someone = to laugh at someone, or to make fun of someone.
Maria says to poke fun x OF x not AT you – this would not be said in British English.