"get one's shirt out" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the custom of taking one's shirt off before fighting (after becoming annoyed).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gets one's shirt out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "getting one's shirt out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got one's shirt out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got one's shirt out",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gotten one's shirt out",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "get<,,got,got􂀿UK􂁀:gotten􂀿US􂁀> one's shirt out"
      },
      "expansion": "get one's shirt out (third-person singular simple present gets one's shirt out, present participle getting one's shirt out, simple past got one's shirt out, past participle (UK) got one's shirt out or (US) gotten one's shirt out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1883, Robert Harborough Sherard, A Bartered Honour: A Novel, Volume 1, Remington, page 183",
          "text": "\"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.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 12: The Cyclops",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become angry or annoyed; to lose one's temper."
      ],
      "id": "en-get_one's_shirt_out-en-verb-fzrUwktn",
      "links": [
        [
          "angry",
          "angry"
        ],
        [
          "annoyed",
          "annoyed"
        ],
        [
          "lose one's temper",
          "lose one's temper"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, dated) To become angry or annoyed; to lose one's temper."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "keep one's shirt on"
        },
        {
          "word": "shirty"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/En-au-get_one%27s_shirt_out.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "get one's shirt out"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the custom of taking one's shirt off before fighting (after becoming annoyed).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gets one's shirt out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "getting one's shirt out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got one's shirt out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got one's shirt out",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gotten one's shirt out",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "get<,,got,got􂀿UK􂁀:gotten􂀿US􂁀> one's shirt out"
      },
      "expansion": "get one's shirt out (third-person singular simple present gets one's shirt out, present participle getting one's shirt out, simple past got one's shirt out, past participle (UK) got one's shirt out or (US) gotten one's shirt out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "keep one's shirt on"
    },
    {
      "word": "shirty"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1883, Robert Harborough Sherard, A Bartered Honour: A Novel, Volume 1, Remington, page 183",
          "text": "\"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.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 12: The Cyclops",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become angry or annoyed; to lose one's temper."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "angry",
          "angry"
        ],
        [
          "annoyed",
          "annoyed"
        ],
        [
          "lose one's temper",
          "lose one's temper"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, dated) To become angry or annoyed; to lose one's temper."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-get one's shirt out.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/ba/En-au-get_one%27s_shirt_out.ogg/En-au-get_one%27s_shirt_out.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/En-au-get_one%27s_shirt_out.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "get one's shirt out"
}