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without a stitch on
Idioms and Phrases
Naked, as in They let their baby run around outside without a stitch on . A related phrase is not have a stitch on . These expressions use stitch in the sense of “a piece of clothing,†a usage dating from the early 1800s.Example Sentences
And they could overlook the Indians’ practice of letting prepubescent children run about without a stitch on.
“I lived in trees or on my bicycle. The only clothes I liked were old clothes, always the same ones. My mother got so exasperated she would throw them out. So one day to get back at her, I marched out into the garden without a stitch on.â€
My point of reference for naked male behavior is the man I live with, who is decidedly unembarrassed about walking around without a stitch on, up to and including wearing nothing but boots while he shovels the snow off the porch.
The little brown manikin, without a stitch on him to conceal God's handiwork, sprawled on his stomach across his mother's knees, making inarticulate noises, and wriggling after the manner of infants when it is well with them, for the sun was pleasantly warm, and his mother's rubbing appealed to his budding sensations.
He was in a White House bedroom one day when Lyndon Johnson disrobed, and the Texas lawyer beheld the Emperor without a stitch on.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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