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
Labhrainn	-	Scottish
Everett	EV-ə-rit, EV-rit	English
Gayle	[geil]
Iolo	-	Welsh
Maleko	-	Hawaiian
Aleksandr	ah-lyek-SAHNDR (Russian), ah-leek-SAHNDR (Russian)	Russian, Armenian, Ukrainian