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]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Gordian	-	History
Siva	-	Tamil, Indian, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam
Macsen	-	Welsh
Henri	awn-REE (French), HEN-ree (Finnish)	French, Finnish
Lizbeth	['lizəθ]
RÜStem	-	Turkish