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get_one's_shirt_out

get one's shirt out

English

Verb

get one's shirt out

  1. (idiomatic, dated) To become angry or annoyed; to lose one's temper.
    • 1883, Robert Harborough Sherard, A Bartered Honour: A Novel, Volume 1, Remington, page 183:
      "All right, sir, all right," said Chizzlem, lighting a huge cigar; "there it is, don't get your shirt out about it. I daresay I'll get along well enough without you. Though why you should be ashamed at what some of the flyest men do regularly, I can't tell."
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 12: The Cyclops:
      I dare him, says he, and I doubledare him to send you round here again or if he does, says he, I'll have him summonsed up before the court, so I will, for trading without a licence. And he after stuffing himself till he's fit to burst. Jesus, I had to laugh at the little jewy getting his shirt out.

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References

  • Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham. The Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, page 993. Wordsworth Editions, 2001.
  • Farmer, John S. and Henley, W. E. A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English: Abridged from the Seven-volume, page 406. G. Routledge & Sons, Limited, 1905.
  • Green, Jonathon. Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, page 585. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., 2005.
  • Partridge, Eric. A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, page 1052. Routledge, 2006.