shirt-tail
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Once when she was excited and caught her shirt-tail in the electric fan he acted in such a kindly way that she was not embarrassed at all.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
He loosened his belt and tucked in his shirt-tail and tightened the belt again.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
"Just look here, 'Giddy-giddy Gout with his shirt-tail out,'" exclaimed the lad, breaking into one of the poetic quotations of which he was rarely guilty.
From Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Miles Franklin
Ah went in mah shirt-tail till ah wuz six.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration
He gets trusted for a shirt-tail full o' pied type, a pre-Raphaelite press, lays in a job-lot of editorial "we's" and a sawdust cuspidore, girds up his loins and begins to commence.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by William Cowper Brann
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