英语词汇lose one-s shirt的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

lose one’s shirt. Lose one’s shirt used to mean to be very an- gry, giving us the present-day keep your shirt on, “keep cool, be calm.” Only in this century did the expression come to mean to lose everything. It has many antecedents that convey the same idea, including He’d give you the shirt off his back, his last pos- session, and not a shirt to his back, meaning someone penniless and propertyless, with nothing at all. Chaucer, in “The Whf of Bathes Tale,” wrote of someone he admired though “had he nought a schert.”

词汇	lose one-s shirt
词源	lose one’s shirt. Lose one’s shirt used to mean to be very an- gry, giving us the present-day keep your shirt on, “keep cool, be calm.” Only in this century did the expression come to mean to lose everything. It has many antecedents that convey the same idea, including He’d give you the shirt off his back, his last pos- session, and not a shirt to his back, meaning someone penniless and propertyless, with nothing at all. Chaucer, in “The Whf of Bathes Tale,” wrote of someone he admired though “had he nought a schert.”
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