to one's name

Idioms  

1. Owned by one, as in He has not got a nickel to his name, or She has only one pair of shoes to her name. This idiom was first recorded in 1876.

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to one's name

The Doctors Doctor On Demand; whether the trait of clumsiness is tied to one’s name; stopping digital drain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2021

A title to one's name, a red ribbon, or something else, what are they but baubles, unless there is more?

From The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. by James Milne

The real flattering thing would be to be made as much of as Philip is, for one's own merits, and not for the handle to one's name.'

From The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte Mary Yonge

It taught me the value of being explicit as to one's name.

From A Woman Named Smith by Marie Conway Oemler

After all those experiences, to be lying on the ground like some tramp in Europe, without a thing to one's name, was to be merely grotesque and incongruous.

From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale

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