Pants, where fire breaks out in lying? (6)
I believe the answer is:
briefs
'pants' is the definition.
(type of underwear)
'fire breaks out in lying?' is the wordplay.
'breaks out' indicates anagramming the letters.
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'lying?' becomes 'bs' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'fire' with letters rearranged gives 'rief'.
'rief' placed into 'bs' is 'BRIEFS'.
'where' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for briefs that I've seen before include "They are prepared for barristers' perusal" , "Underpants for lawyers?" , "Garments" , "Sets of instructions for lawyers" , "Digests" .)