英语词汇“not a shirt to one's back”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(b) not a shirt to (also on) one's back and variants: (almost) no goods or possessions, not even basic necessities.

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1607 E. Sharpham Fleire ii. sig. E^v I haue heard some say, you were a verie needie Knight, and that you had but one shirt to your backe when you came first to this towne.

1665 R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales Chaucer 186 Admit he be not worth a Shirt to his back, he has Wealth enough, who holds himself content.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) III. xxxi. 202 (note) Augustus had neither glass to his windows, nor a shirt to his back.

1879 G. H. Wayte Prospecting 99 I landed in England with just the shirt on my back.

1923 T. Dreiser Color of Great City 34 Fifteen years ago to-day I was a poor, dispirited, broken-down tramp sitting on a bench in a park, not a shirt to my back.

2004 T. Barnard Making Grand Figure viii. 251 A freeholder from Corofin, denounced as ‘a common beggar’, without a shirt to his back.

单词	not a shirt to one's back
释义	> as lemmas not a shirt to (also on) one's back (b) not a shirt to (also on) one's back and variants: (almost) no goods or possessions, not even basic necessities. ΚΠ 1607 E. Sharpham Fleire ii. sig. E^v I haue heard some say, you were a verie needie Knight, and that you had but one shirt to your backe when you came first to this towne. 1665 R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales Chaucer 186 Admit he be not worth a Shirt to his back, he has Wealth enough, who holds himself content. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) III. xxxi. 202 (note) Augustus had neither glass to his windows, nor a shirt to his back. 1879 G. H. Wayte Prospecting 99 I landed in England with just the shirt on my back. 1923 T. Dreiser Color of Great City 34 Fifteen years ago to-day I was a poor, dispirited, broken-down tramp sitting on a bench in a park, not a shirt to my back. 2004 T. Barnard Making Grand Figure viii. 251 A freeholder from Corofin, denounced as ‘a common beggar’, without a shirt to his back. extracted from shirtn. < as lemmas
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