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
Fingal	-	Scottish
Oskar	AWS-kahr (German, Polish)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Polish
Zaynab	-	Arabic
Vencel	-	Hungarian
Ersilia	er-ZEEL-yah	Italian
Vaughan	[vɔ:n]