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Idiom lose one's shirt Theme: 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.
Slang lose one's shirt Theme: LOSS tr. to go broke; to lose everything of value, even one's shirt.I lost my shirt on that bank deal.Try not to lose your shirt in the market again.
lose (one's) shirtTo lose a significant amount of one's money (often all of it). This is my last chance—I'll lose my shirt if this business venture fails. lose one's shirtFace financial ruin, go bankrupt, as in He lost his shirt in the last recession. This expression implies one has lost even one's shirt. [Early 1900s] lose one's shirt, toTo lose everything. This term alludes to betting on or investing everything one owns in some venture, but at one time it meant to become very angry (in effect the opposite of keep your shirt on). The current cliché, aided and abetted by the Great Depression, is a twentieth-century locution. “He hit the market . . . about the time the bottom dropped out of it. He lost his shirt!” (E. B. Mann, Thirsty Range, 1935). |