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shirt-sleeve
[ shurt-sleev ]
adjective
- not wearing a jacket; informally dressed:
a shirt-sleeve mob.
- warm enough to live or work in without wearing a jacket or coat:
shirt-sleeve weather in November.
- simple, plain, and informal; direct and straightforward in approach, manner, etc.:
shirt-sleeve diplomacy.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of shirt-sleeve1
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Example Sentences
Thurstane partially threw off his coat and rolled up his shirt sleeve.
Here you will find the padre with his coat off engaged in the real "shirt-sleeve" religion of the trenches.
He then rolled up his shirt sleeve to show that he was a white man, since his hands and face were almost as dark as an Indian's.
Again, they faced one another, the wounded man having hastily tied a piece of his shirt sleeve round his arm.
By the time Mr. Narkom came up with him he had laid aside his coat and was hastily turning back the cuff of his shirt sleeve.
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