Indiana

So when somebody loses their shirt.

This is showing that they have lost so much money, perhaps in a risky financial decision or a bet or a bad investment, that they have lost everything, including the shirt that they're wearing, right?

You could imagine I have lost all of my money.

So much money that I can't even afford to put a shirt on right like all my clothes all my possessions are gone so it's just this idea that even the shirt on your back is gone because of a bad financial decision.

No, certainly not.

And even I think if you if you bought something really expensive, and, you know, not just an expensive latte, but like, let's say a really big TV, even then, if you regretted that decision, I don't, I don't think you would use lose your shirt.

I lost my shirt buying that TV.

I don't think you would use this expression.

in that situation.

I really think it's just for sort of financial decisions, like you said, in the stock market, or like gambling or something, or yeah, some sort of business venture.

It's less commonly used for something like a personal purchase or something like that.

So yeah, there's some restrictions to how we can use this idiom.

Not really.

To be honest, I'm having a terrible week.

You know that crypto coin I told you about?

The one I put my savings into?

crashed it completely tanked i basically lost my shirt on that deal i should have just kept my money in the bank i don't know what i was thinking

When something tanks like an investment or a company's profits, that means that it goes down incredibly fast.

It describes really rapid decline.

So when this person's investment, when she says it tanked, that means she pretty much lost all her money.