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
Such is the shout, the long-applauding note, 330 At Quin's high plume, or Oldfield's petticoat; Or when from court a birthday suit bestow'd, Sinks the lost actor in the tawdry load.
From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by Gilfillan, George
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
