lose one's shirt 成语
lose one's shirt
Idiom(s): lose one's shirtTheme: FAILURE
to lose all of one's assets (including one's shirt). (Slang.)
• I almost lost my shirt on that deal. I have to invest more wisely.
• No, I can't loan you $200. I just lost my shirt at the racetrack.
lose one's shirt|lose|shirt
v. phr., slang To lose all or most of your money. Uncle Joe spent his life savings to buy a store, but it failed, and he lost his shirt. Mr. Matthews lost his shirt betting on the horses.lose (one's) shirt
To lose a cogent bulk of one's money (often all of it). This is my aftermost chance—I'll lose my shirt if this business adventure fails.Learn more: lose, shirtlose one's shirt
Face banking ruin, go bankrupt, as in He absent his shirt in the aftermost recession. This announcement implies one has absent alike one's shirt. [Early 1900s] Learn more: lose, shirtlose one's shirt, to
To lose everything. This appellation alludes to action on or advance aggregate one owns in some venture, but at one time it meant to become actual affronted (in aftereffect the adverse of accumulate your shirt on). The accepted cliché, aided and abetted by the Great Depression, is a avant-garde locution. “He hit the bazaar . . . about the time the basal alone out of it. He absent his shirt!” (E. B. Mann, Thirsty Range, 1935).Learn more: lose
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English Vocalbulary
lose one's temper
lose one's way
lose one's wind
lose one's wool
lose oneself in thought
lose out
lose sight of
lose the bell
lose the day
lose the number of one's mess
lose the scent
lose the ship for a halfpennyworth of tar
lose the ship for a haporth of tar
lose the toss
lose the upper hand
lose the way
lose time
lose touch with sb
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