the shirt off one's back
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.18 in modern English
39
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
2
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Everything currently in the possession of a person.
Example Sentences
- ""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.""
- "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."
- "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."