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
SreČKo	-	Slovene
Massoud	-	Persian
Matfey	maht-VYAY	Russian
Trevor	['trevə]
Kali	KAH-lee (Hinduism)	Hinduism, Bengali, Tamil
Sissinnguaq	-	Native American, Greenlandic