"lose one's shirt" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-lose one's shirt.ogg [Australia] Forms: loses one's shirt [present, singular, third-person], losing one's shirt [participle, present], lost one's shirt [participle, past], lost one's shirt [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|lose<,,lost> one's shirt}} lose one's shirt (third-person singular simple present loses one's shirt, present participle losing one's shirt, simple past and past participle lost one's shirt)
  1. (idiomatic) To lose all of one's money; to go broke; to undergo financial ruin or disaster. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-lose_one's_shirt-en-verb-ZKtsoXSJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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