lose shirt Idioma
eat my hat/shirt
get your shirt in a knot/ get your shit in a knot
keep your shirt on
like a dirty shirt
lose your shirt
shirty
stuffed shirt
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.
Keep your shirt on!
Idiom(s): Keep your shirt on!Theme: PATIENCE
Be patient! (Slang. Usually considered rude.)
• Hey, keep your shirt on! I'll be with you in a minute.
• I'll bring you your hamburger when it's cooked, just keep your shirt on, friend.
give sb the shirt off one's back
Idiom(s): give sb the shirt off one's backTheme: GENEROSITY
to be very generous or solicitous to someone.
• Tom really likes Bill. He'd give Bill the shirt off his back.
• John is so friendly that he'd give anyone the shirt off his back.
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
Fig. to lose a lot of money; to lose all of one's assets (as if one had alike absent one's shirt). I about absent my shirt on that deal. I accept to advance added wisely. No, I can't accommodation you $200. I aloof absent my shirt at the racetrack.Learn more: lose, shirtlose (one's) shirt
Slang To lose aggregate one has or owns.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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give sth a lick and a promise give one's right arm for give sb what for give sb to understand give sb tit for tat give sb the works give sb the third degree give sb the slip give sb the shirt off one's back give sb the runaround give sb the red-carpet treatment give sb the once-over give sb the low-down give sb the high sign give sb the hard sell give sb the go-by give sb the go-ahead lose one's bearings lose one's buttons lose one's cool lose one's grip lose one's head lose one's head, to lose one's hear to lose one's lunch lose one's marbles lose one's mind lose one's nerve lose one's shirt lose one's shirt, to lose one's temper lose one's touch lose oneself in lose out lose out in (something) lose out on lose out on (something) lose out to lose out to (someone or something) lose patience lose patience (with one) lose reason lose shirt lose sight of lose sight of (someone or something) lose sight of something lose sleep lose sleep about (someone or something) lose sleep over lose sleep over (someone or something) lose sleep over, to lose some amount of time lose somebody/something in the shuffle lose temper lose the battle, but win the war lose the drift (of something) lose the drift/thread of something lose the number of (one's) mess lose the plot lose the thread lose the use of lose the use of (something) lose time lose to lose to (someone or something) lose tongue lose touch lose touch (with one)
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