英语词组lose shirt是什么意思，短语翻译、用法及例句-英语词组固定搭配大全

Idiom

lose shirtlose (your) shirt

British, American & Australian put (your) shirt on (something) - to risk all your money on something because you are sure you will win.

He said he'd lost his shirt on that race.

(usually + on)

lose (one's) shirt

To lose a significant amount of one's money (often all of it). This is my last chance—I'll lose my shirt if this business venture fails.

lose one's shirt

Fig. to lose a lot of money; to lose all of one's assets (as if one had even lost one's shirt). I almost lost my shirt on that deal. I have to invest more wisely. No, I can't loan you $200. I just lost my shirt at the racetrack.

lose (one's) shirt

Slang

To lose everything one has or owns.

lose one's shirt, to

To lose everything. This term alludes to betting on or investing everything one owns in some venture, but at one time it meant to become very angry (in effect the opposite of keep your shirt on). The current cliché, aided and abetted by the Great Depression, is a twentieth-century locution. “He hit the market . . . about the time the bottom dropped out of it. He lost his shirt!” (E. B. Mann, Thirsty Range, 1935).

词组	lose shirt
释义	Idiom lose shirtlose (your) shirt British, American & Australian put (your) shirt on (something) - to risk all your money on something because you are sure you will win. He said he'd lost his shirt on that race. (usually + on) lose (one's) shirt To lose a significant amount of one's money (often all of it). This is my last chance—I'll lose my shirt if this business venture fails. lose one's shirt Fig. to lose a lot of money; to lose all of one's assets (as if one had even lost one's shirt). I almost lost my shirt on that deal. I have to invest more wisely. No, I can't loan you $200. I just lost my shirt at the racetrack. lose (one's) shirt Slang To lose everything one has or owns. lose one's shirt, to To lose everything. This term alludes to betting on or investing everything one owns in some venture, but at one time it meant to become very angry (in effect the opposite of keep your shirt on). The current cliché, aided and abetted by the Great Depression, is a twentieth-century locution. “He hit the market . . . about the time the bottom dropped out of it. He lost his shirt!” (E. B. Mann, Thirsty Range, 1935).
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