| 单词 | to read one's shirt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto read one's shirt P11. slang. to read one's shirt: to examine one's clothing for vermin. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > pest control > remove vermin [verb (intransitive)] > exterminate insects > remove lice > search for lice to read one's shirt1918 1918 National Geographic Mag. June 499 They..speak of ‘reading their shirts’. 1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route xiii. 144 It is said, for instance, that the hobo spends a great deal of his time reading his shirt, seeking certain animals known as ‘seam squirrels’. 1951 J. P. Marquand Melville Goodwin, USA xxv. 388 There's something itching and I'd better read my shirt a while. 1978 J. L. McWilliams & R. J. Steel Suicide Battalion iii. 31 Soon everyone had the telltale itch, and all ranks began ‘reading their shirts’. < as lemmas |
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