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

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