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“à en faire craquer ses fonds de culotte”: Is this expression used metaphorically?

Yes, that’s a metaphor too, more precisely an hyperbole which suggests the friend has an immediate weight gain causing his pants seams to crack…

It is certainly related to the more common phrase user ses fonds de culotte.

I have never heard fonds de culotte outside this set expression.