LIKE A DIRTY SHIRT

Meaning of LIKE A DIRTY SHIRT in English

always there - like shirts that need to be washed

If you have a garage sale, Jim will be there like a dirty shirt.

Wayne Magnuson. English idioms vocabulary. Словарь английских идиом. 2012

LIKE A DIRTY SHIRT — always there - like shirts that need to be washed If you have a garage sale, Jim will be there …
English Idioms vocab
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SHIRT — I. ˈshər]t, ˈshə̄], ˈshəi], usu ]d.+V noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English shirte, sherte, from Old English scyrte; akin …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
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Webster's New International English Dictionary
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Webster's New International English Dictionary
SHIRT — (v. t. & i.) To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as with a shirt.
Английский словарь Webster
SHIRT — ( v. t. & i. ) To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as with a shirt.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SHIRT — — shirtless , adj. /sherrt/ , n. 1. a long- or short-sleeved garment for the upper part of the body, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
LIKE — like 1 — liker , n. /luyk/ , adj., ( Poetic ) liker, likest , prep., adv., conj., n., v., …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
DIRTY — — dirtily , adv. — dirtiness , n. /derr"tee/ , adj., dirtier, dirtiest , v. , dirtied, dirtying , adv. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
DIRTY — I. ˈdər-tē adjective ( dirt·i·er ; -est ) Date: 14th century 1. a. : not clean or pure dirty clothes …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SHIRT — noun Etymology: Middle English shirte, from Old English scyrte; akin to Old Norse skyrta shirt, Old English scort short Date: …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
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Webster English vocab
LIKE — adj likely; probably. 2. like ·adj in a like or similar manner. 3. like ·vi to be pleased; to choose. …
Webster English vocab
DIRTY — superl sullied; clouded; applied to color. 2. dirty ·superl sleety; gusty; stormy; as, dirty weather. 3. dirty ·superl sordid; …
Webster English vocab
SHIRT — [shirt] n [ME shirte, fr. OE scyrte; akin to ON skyrta shirt, OE scort short] (bef. 12c) 1: a garment …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
DIRTY — [dirty] adj dirt.i.er ; -est (14c) 1 a: not clean or pure "~ clothes" b: likely to befoul or defile …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SHIRT — any of a variety of cloth garments having sleeves and worn on the upper part of the body, often under …
Britannica English vocabulary
DIRTY — dirt|y BrE AmE ˈdɜːt |i AmE ˈdɝːt̬ |i ▷ dirt|ied id ▷ dirt|ier i‿ə AmE i‿ ə r ▷ dirt|ies …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
SHIRT — / ʃɜːt; NAmE ʃɜːrt/ noun a piece of clothing (usually for men), worn on the upper part of the body, …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
LIKE — / laɪk; NAmE / preposition , verb , conjunction , noun , adjective , adverb ■ preposition 1. similar to …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SHIRT — shirt S2 W3 /ʃɜːt $ ʃɜːrt/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Language: Old English ; Origin: scyrte ] 1 . …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
LIKE — I. like 1 S1 W1 /laɪk/ BrE AmE preposition [ Date: 1300-1400 ; Origin: ⇨ ↑ like 6 ] 1 …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SHIRT — n. 1 a man's upper-body garment of cotton etc., having a collar, sleeves, and esp. buttons down the front, and …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
LIKE — adj., prep., adv., conj., & n. --adj. (often governing a noun as if a transitive participle such as resembling) (more …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
DIRTY — adj., adv., & v. --adj. (dirtier, dirtiest) 1 soiled, unclean. 2 causing one to become dirty (a dirty job). 3 …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SHIRT — n. 1 a man's upper-body garment of cotton etc., having a collar, sleeves, and esp. buttons down the front, and …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
LIKE — adj., prep., adv., conj., & n. adj. (often governing a noun as if a transitive participle such as resembling) (more …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
DIRTY — adj., adv., & v. adj. (dirtier, dirtiest) 1 soiled, unclean. 2 causing one to become dirty (a dirty job). 3 …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SHIRT — n.1 a man's upper-body garment of cotton etc., having a collar, sleeves, and esp. buttons down the front, and often …
Oxford English vocab
LIKE — 1. adj., prep., adv., conj., & n. --adj. (often governing a noun as if a transitive participle such as resembling) …
Oxford English vocab
DIRTY — adj., adv., & v. --adj. (dirtier, dirtiest) 1. soiled, unclean. 2 causing one to become dirty (a dirty job). 3 …
Oxford English vocab
LIKE — I. PREPOSITION AND CONJUNCTION USES /laɪk, laɪk/ ( likes) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SHIRT — ( shirts) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. A shirt is a …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
SHIRT — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a clean shirt/sheet/towel etc ▪ Where are all my clean socks? a cotton shirt/dress/jacket etc …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SHIRT — [noun] [C] - a piece of clothing worn esp. by men on the upper part of the body, made of …
Cambridge English vocab
DIRTY — [adverb] [not gradable](figurative informal) Dez likes football but he plays dirty (= unfairly).(UK and ANZ slang) Dirty great/big means extremely …
Cambridge English vocab
SHIRT — Synonyms and related words : O, basque, blouse, bodice, body shirt, body suit, coat shirt, corsage, dickey, doublet, dress shirt, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SHIRT — See: GIVE THE SHIRT OFF ONE'S BACK, KEEP ONE'S SHIRT ON, LOSE ONE'S SHIRT.
Slang English vocab
SHIRT — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ clean ▪ crisp , fresh ▪ He wears a crisp white ~ to the office every day. …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
LIKE — See ↑ ENJOY 1, ↑ EXAMPLE 3, ↑ LIKE 1,7, ↑ WAY 8 ◆◆◆ • ↑ be just like • …
Longman Activator English vocab
LIKE — INDEX: things 1. to like something 2. to like something very much 3. to like something that could be bad …
Longman Activator English vocab
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Longman Activator English vocab
DIRTY — adj. 25B6; adjective a dirty sweatshirt 007C; dirty water : SOILED, grimy, grubby, filthy, mucky, stained, unwashed, greasy, smeared, smeary, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
DIRTY — adj. 1 foul, unclean, befouled, soiled, begrimed, sooty, grimy, filthy, mucky, besmeared, besmirched, befouled, polluted, squalid, sullied, stained, spotted, smudged, …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
SHIRT — See: GIVE THE SHIRT OFF ONE'S BACK, KEEP ONE'S SHIRT ON, LOSE ONE'S SHIRT.
Словарь английских идиом
LIKE — I verb 1 BAD : What he likes to know is how much it will cost. GOOD : What he …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
SHIRT — сущ. 1) рубашка; блуза; сорочка to have not a shirt to one's back ≈ жить в крайней нищете to get …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
LIKE — I 1. прил. 1) аналогичный, подобный, похожий, сходный Syn : similar, resembling 2) идентичный, одинаковый, равный, тождественный like sum like …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
DIRTY — 1. прил. 1) а) грязный, запачканный Syn : filthy, foul, sordid, squalid, unclean, soiled, muddy, miry, filthy, sordid Ant : …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SHIRT — shirt.ogg 1. ʃɜ:t n 1. 1> рубашка, сорочка a boiled shirt - разг. крахмальная сорочка dress shirt - белая рубашка …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
LIKE — like.ogg _I 1. laık n 1> чьё-л. подобие; такой же человек we shall not see his like again - такого …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
DIRTY — dirty.ogg 1. ʹdɜ:tı a 1. 1> грязный, нечистый; испачканный, замаранный dirty hands street - грязные руки -ая улица dirty task …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
SHIRT — верхняя мужская сорочка - blouson shirt - casual shirt - close style shirt - cut-and-sew shirt - day shirt - …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
SHIRT — верхняя мужская сорочка - blouson shirt - casual shirt - close style shirt - cut-and-sew shirt - day shirt - fly front shirt - gala shirt - kagoule-style …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь - РУССО
SHIRT — 1. ʃɜ:t n 1. 1> рубашка, сорочка a boiled shirt - разг. крахмальная сорочка dress shirt - белая рубашка к …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
LIKE — _I 1. laık n 1) чьё-л. подобие; такой же человек we shall not see his like again - такого человека, …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
DIRTY — 1. ʹdɜ:tı a 1. 1> грязный, нечистый; испачканный, замаранный dirty hands street - грязные руки -ая улица dirty task - …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь

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