lose one's shirt



lose one's shirt

Face 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]
See also: lose, shirt

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Cynem&Aelig;R-Anglo-Saxon
Mihail-Romanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Greek
SelahSEE-lə (English)Biblical
Makari-Russian (Archaic)
Teodorte-AW-dawr (Polish), TE-o-dor (Croatian)Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Romanian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Hungarian,
Tenzing-Tibetan