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
Toini	TOY-nee	Finnish
Heino	HIE-no (German), HAY-no (Finnish)	German, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Estonian
Orinda	-	English (Rare)
Theobald	THEE-ə-bawld (English)	English (Rare), Ancient Germanic
Hine	HEE-ne	Maori
Regula	-	German (Swiss), Late Roman