getting one's shirt out
getting one's shirt out is the present participle and gerund of get one's shirt out.
Meaning of get one's shirt out
Verb
get one's shirt out (third-person singular simple present gets one's shirt out, present participle getting one's shirt out, simple past got one's shirt out, past participle (UK) got one's shirt out or (US) gotten one's shirt out)
- To become angry or annoyed; to lose one's temper.
- "All right, sir, all right," said Chizzlem, lighting a huge cigar; "there it is, don't get your shirt out about it. I daresay I'll get along well enough without you. Though why you should be ashamed at what some of the flyest men do regularly, I can't tell."1883, Robert Harborough Sherard, A Bartered Honour: A Novel, Volume 1, Remington, page 183
Questions about getting one's shirt out
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- Getting one's shirt out is the present participle and gerund of get one's shirt out.
Words near getting one's shirt out in the dictionary
- getting one's priorities right
- getting one's priorities straight
- getting one's rocks off
- getting one's shine box
- getting one's shinebox
- getting one's shirt out
- getting one's shit pushed in
- getting one's shit together
- getting one's shorts in a knot
- getting one's shtick together
- getting one's skates on
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