shirt
noun/ʃɜːrt/
Слово англійською: shirt
Переклад shirt українською: сорочка
Детальний опис
- a piece of clothing worn on the upper part of the body, made of light cloth, with sleeves and usually with a collar and buttons down the front
- to wear a shirt
- a white/blue/red shirt
- He had a shirt and tie on.
- a long-sleeved/short-sleeved shirt
- an open-necked shirt
- a button-down shirt
- a cotton/flannel/silk shirt
- She took a pen from her shirt pocket.
- a football shirt
- in a shirt A man in a striped shirt sat alone in the corner.
Word OriginOld English scyrte, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse skyrta (compare with skirt), Dutch schort, German Schürze ‘apron’, also to short; probably from a base meaning ‘short garment’.
Idioms
keep your shirt on
- (informal) used to tell somebody not to get angry
- Keep your shirt on! It was only a joke.
put your shirt on somebody/something
- (British English, informal) to bet all your money on somebody/something
- It's a good horse, but I wouldn't put my shirt on it.
the shirt off somebody’s back
- anything that somebody has, including the things they really need themselves, that somebody else takes from them or they are willing to give
- He was the type of person who would give you the shirt off his back.