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give the shirt off one's back
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Idioms and Phrases
Give anything and everything one possesses. For example, Tom is truly generous—he'll give you the shirt off his back . This hyperbolic idiom was first recorded in 1771.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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