"shirt-sleeve" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "The adjective sense is derived from the practice of taking one’s jacket off and relaxing in shirt sleeves.",
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      "expansion": "shirt-sleeve (not comparable)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He had a shirt-sleeve style of management.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having an informal, relaxed appearance or approach, particularly in business."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "informal",
          "informal"
        ],
        [
          "relaxed",
          "relaxed"
        ],
        [
          "appearance",
          "appearance"
        ],
        [
          "approach",
          "approach#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "business",
          "business"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shirt-sleeve"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "The adjective sense is derived from the practice of taking one’s jacket off and relaxing in shirt sleeves.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shirt-sleeves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "shirt-sleeve (plural shirt-sleeves)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "shirt sleeve"
        }
      ],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1872, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond",
          "text": "Not one of those rustic wassals of the Ouse of Widdlers, but ad his air curled and his shirt-sleaves tied up with pink ribbing as he led to the macy dance some appy country gal, with a black velvit boddice and a redd or yaller petticoat, a hormylu cross on her neck, and a silver harrow in her air!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of shirt sleeve"
      ],
      "id": "en-shirt-sleeve-en-noun-bIV6~pEE",
      "links": [
        [
          "shirt sleeve",
          "shirt sleeve#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shirt-sleeve"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncomparable adjectives"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "The adjective sense is derived from the practice of taking one’s jacket off and relaxing in shirt sleeves.",
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "shirt-sleeve (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He had a shirt-sleeve style of management.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having an informal, relaxed appearance or approach, particularly in business."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "informal",
          "informal"
        ],
        [
          "relaxed",
          "relaxed"
        ],
        [
          "appearance",
          "appearance"
        ],
        [
          "approach",
          "approach#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "business",
          "business"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shirt-sleeve"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncomparable adjectives"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "The adjective sense is derived from the practice of taking one’s jacket off and relaxing in shirt sleeves.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shirt-sleeves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "shirt-sleeve (plural shirt-sleeves)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "shirt sleeve"
        }
      ],
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1872, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond",
          "text": "Not one of those rustic wassals of the Ouse of Widdlers, but ad his air curled and his shirt-sleaves tied up with pink ribbing as he led to the macy dance some appy country gal, with a black velvit boddice and a redd or yaller petticoat, a hormylu cross on her neck, and a silver harrow in her air!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of shirt sleeve"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "shirt sleeve",
          "shirt sleeve#English"
        ]
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "word": "shirt-sleeve"
}