"the shirt off one's back" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1991, Richard Preston, American Steel: Hot Metal Men and the Resurrection of the Rust Belt, New York: Prentice Hall Press, →ISBN, page 89:",
          "text": "\"I don't plan on selling my Nuclear shares,\" replied Lillis. \"But I've been on Wall Street for fifty years, and if there's one thing I learned, it's that at the right price I'd sell the shirt off my back.\"",
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          "ref": "2009, Dan Houser, Rupert Humphries, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned, Rockstar Games, Xbox 360, level/area: Roman's Holiday:",
          "text": "Please, gentlemen. The men in there just took my money. I can't get robbed twice in one day! What do you want, the shirt off my back? Come on.",
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          "ref": "2014, Linda Goodnight, Cowboy Under the Mistletoe, New York: Harlequin, →ISBN, page 78:",
          "text": "Though a good guy who'd give the shirt off his back to a friend, Brady Buchanon was a formidable enemy. They all were. Buchanons protected their own.",
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          "text": "\"I don't plan on selling my Nuclear shares,\" replied Lillis. \"But I've been on Wall Street for fifty years, and if there's one thing I learned, it's that at the right price I'd sell the shirt off my back.\"",
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