Thesaurus / lose shirt
FEEDBACKsynonyms for lose shirt
synonyms for lose shirt
- break
- close
- drop
- end
- finish
- crash
- defalcate
- default
- dishonor
- fold
- overdraw
- repudiate
- terminate
- be cleaned out
- become insolvent
- be in arrears
- be ruined
- be taken to the cleaners
- close down
- close one's doors
- drop a bundle
- go bankrupt
- go belly up
- go broke
- go bust
- go into Chapter 11
- go out of business
- go to the wall
- go under
- go up
- lose big
- lose one's shirt
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How to use lose shirt in a sentence
If you use it wisely, it may be Ulysses' hauberk; if you reject it, the shirt of Nessus were a cooler winding-sheet!
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERHis hat was pushed back from his forehead, the collar of his blue flannel shirt was open.
THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDENThere was not a moment to lose, for one well-directed shot might exterminate half of us.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSHe reached down inside my shirt, with a none too gentle hand, and relieved me of the belt that held the money.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRThat he might lose his head and 'introduce an element of sex' was conscience confessing that it had been already introduced.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODSpeaking with a certain dignity and using the language of the court, he said that they had not a moment to lose.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYFearing to lose his way, he bawls over the banister, and through the corridors, “Is any one there?”
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANUWhen Tim hesitates he loses his temper as a sensible man should lose it—he buries it, and his indomitable good humor wins.
THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYDTo lose a breath of the public approbation in his present state, were to give up fatally the only stay on which he rested.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUS"Oh, well, it's easy to lose track of a lone man in a country as big as this," he returned suavely.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR