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
Vinh-Vietnamese
ClairKLERFrench, English
Iliaeel-YAH (Russian)Georgian, Russian, Bulgarian, Old Church Slavic
Beatricebe-ah-TREE-che (Italian), BEE-ə-tris (English), BEE-tris (English), BE-ah-trees (Swedish), be-ah-TREES (Swedish)Italian, English, Swedish
Lovise-Danish, Norwegian
Muhammadmu-HAHM-mahd (Arabic)Arabic, Urdu, Punjabi, Pashto, Bengali, Tajik, Indonesian, Malay