3. Lose One‘s Shirt = lose a great deal of money
連襯衫都輸?shù)袅耍硎据斄撕芏噱X。
范例對話:
A: I happened to bump into Doug at lunch yesterday afternoon.
昨天中午我碰上道格了.
B: What‘s new with Doug these days?
他怎么樣?
A: He wasn‘t doing so well. For one thing, he told me he lost his shirt at the races.
不太好.有件事,他告訴我馬賽上輸了很多錢.
B: Doug has always liked to bet on the horses. I‘m not surprised that he lost a great deal of money.
他喜歡賭馬.說他輸了大錢我一點(diǎn)都不奇怪.