Get One's Shirt Out Meaning

Get One's Shirt Out is an idiom. The meaning of this idiom is (idiomatic, dated) To become angry or annoyed; to lose one's temper.. Explore more Idiom Meanings.

Get One's Shirt Out

(idiomatic, dated) To become angry or annoyed; to lose one's temper.

Example : 1883, Robert Harborough Sherard, A Bartered Honour: A Novel, Volume 1, Remington, page 183: "All right, sir, all right," said Chizzlem, lighting a huge cigar; "there it is, don't get your shirt out about it. I daresay I'll get along well enough without you. Though why you should be ashamed at what some of the flyest men do regularly, I can't tell."1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 12: The Cyclops: I dare him, says he, and I doubledare him to send you round here again or if he does, says he, I'll have him summonsed up before the court, so I will, for trading without a licence. And he after stuffing himself till he's fit to burst. Jesus, I had to laugh at the little jewy getting his shirt out.

Meaning of Get One's Shirt Out

Get One's Shirt Out is an idiom. It is one of the most commonly used expressions in English writings. Get One's Shirt Out stands for (idiomatic, dated) To become angry or annoyed; to lose one's temper.. Explore Urdupoint to find out more popular Idioms and Idiom Meanings, to amplify your writings

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