birthday suit
Example Sentences
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But once lined with hundred-dollar bills, the pockets of my birthday suit now jingle with grimy pennies and nickels.
From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2014
The confetti that falls is black and the animal costumes have gone, and Coyne forgoes his birthday suit – worn during a recent US TV appearance – for an electric-blue jacket and, he complains, too-tight trousers.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2013
Unless I wanted to sign a five-year indenturement contract with some corporation, and that was about as appealing to me as rolling around in broken glass in my birthday suit.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
We frequently judge of them likewise, in the same manner as a birthday suit is estimated by its purchaser, not by the standard of intrinsic value, but by the opinion of the original proprietor.
From An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients by Jackson, Wallace
This and another Russian habit, that of allowing a baby to kick about in its crib clad only in its birthday suit, I commend to the consideration of American mothers.
From Russian Rambles by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
