get someone's shirt out

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get someone's shirt out (third-person singular simple present gets someone's shirt out, present participle getting someone's shirt out, simple past got someone's shirt out, past participle got someone's shirt out or gotten someone's shirt out)

1. (slang, dated) To make someone angry.
   • 1876, Arthur Griffiths, Lola: a Tale of the Rock, volume 1, page 19:

     You've got his shirt out somehow, Honeybun; he'll do you a mischief. What did you say?

• shirty

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary