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Idioms and Phrases

Naked, as in They let their baby run around outside without a stitch on . A related phrase is not have a stitch on . These expressions use stitch in the sense of “a piece of clothing,” a usage dating from the early 1800s.

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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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