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单词 the shirt off one's back
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the shirt off (or on) one's back
(c) the shirt off (or on) one's back: (in hyperbolic phrases) one's last remaining possessions, everything one owns. Chiefly in to give (someone) the shirt off one's back: to give (a person) everything one has; (hence) to do anything for someone.
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1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VI. xxvi. 112 I would give the shirt off my back to be burnt into tinder, were it only to satisfy one feverish enquirer.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 87 He would give away the shirt off his back.
1925 W. N. Burns Saga Billy the Kid 67 He was a free-hearted, generous boy. He'd give a friend the shirt off his back.
1980 Times 7 Oct. 10/5 One day this industry will have the shirt off my back.
2013 R. Cox Orphan Moon 199 Albert's a fine man. He would give the shirt off his back if he knew you had the need.
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