the shirt off one's back

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)Everythingcurrently in thepossessionof a person.1991, Richard Preston,American Steel: Hot Metal Men and the Resurrection of the Rust Belt, New York: Prentice Hall Press,→ISBN, page89:"I don't plan on selling my Nuclear shares," replied Lillis. "But I've been on Wall Street for fifty years, and if there's one thing I learned, it's that at the right price I'd sellthe shirt off my back."2009, Dan Houser, Rupert Humphries,Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned, Rockstar Games, Xbox 360, level/area: Roman's Holiday:Please, gentlemen. The men in there just took my money. I can't get robbed twice in one day! What do you want,the shirt off my back?Come on.2014, Linda Goodnight,Cowboy Under the Mistletoe, New York: Harlequin,→ISBN, page78:Though a good guy who'd givethe shirt off his backto a friend, Brady Buchanon was a formidable enemy. They all were. Buchanons protected their own.

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