Rate this phrase:0.0 / 0 votes

Give Someone the Shirt off Your Back

To have a big heart, to give generously

Etymology:

  • It is a self-explanatory expression of 18th century. If you find a needy person on the road in the cold weather without a shirt, you will take your own shirt off to help him and would lend your shirt to him as it would mark your greatness. In the same way , today if you do any act which shows your kindness and generosity, it would be like “giving the shirt off your back” to someone.
86 Views
“

In the time of need, he is always found giving the shirt off his back that is why people just love him.

Collection   Edit    

Submitted on February 25, 2019

Translation

Find a translation for the Give Someone the Shirt off Your Back phrase in other languages:

Select another language:

  • - Select -
  • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
  • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
  • Español (Spanish)
  • Esperanto (Esperanto)
  • 日本語 (Japanese)
  • Português (Portuguese)
  • Deutsch (German)
  • العربية (Arabic)
  • Français (French)
  • Русский (Russian)
  • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
  • 한국어 (Korean)
  • עברית (Hebrew)
  • Gaeilge (Irish)
  • Українська (Ukrainian)
  • اردو (Urdu)
  • Magyar (Hungarian)
  • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
  • Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Italiano (Italian)
  • தமிழ் (Tamil)
  • Türkçe (Turkish)
  • తెలుగు (Telugu)
  • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
  • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
  • Čeština (Czech)
  • Polski (Polish)
  • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Românește (Romanian)
  • Nederlands (Dutch)
  • Ελληνικά (Greek)
  • Latinum (Latin)
  • Svenska (Swedish)
  • Dansk (Danish)
  • Suomi (Finnish)
  • فارسی (Persian)
  • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
  • հայերեն (Armenian)
  • Norsk (Norwegian)
  • English (English)

Nearby phrases

Some more phrases from our dictionary similar to Give Someone the Shirt off Your Back

give someone what-forgive someone staticgive something a trygive the devil his duegive the lie togive someone the old heave-hogive the liegive someone the brush-offgive something a whirlgive the elbowgive something a missgive someone the businessGive Someone the Third Degreegive someone what for

How to pronounce this phrase?

Discuss this Give Someone the Shirt off Your Back phrase with the community:

0 Comments

    Citation

    Use the citation below to add this Give Someone the Shirt off Your Back definition to your bibliography:

    Style:MLAChicagoAPA

    "Give Someone the Shirt off Your Back." Phrases.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 16 Apr. 2024. <https://www.phrases.com/phrase/give-someone-the-shirt-off-your-back_44710>.

    Powered by CITE.ME Cite.Me

    We need you!

    Help us build the largest human-edited phrases collection on the web!

    Quiz

    Are you a phrases master?

    »
    Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts _________.
    A definitely
    B absolutely
    C a lot
    D a bit

    Browse Phrases.com

    #ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ