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

In his Temple Beau, the beau is dunned for a birthday suit of velvet, 40l.

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George

As Pope writes: Or when from Court a birthday suit bestowed, Sinks the lost actor in the tawdry load.

From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton