shirtsleeves
See also: shirt-sleeves and shirt sleeves
English
editNoun
editshirtsleeves
Noun
editshirtsleeves pl (plural only)
- Alternative form of shirt sleeves
- Street clothes, without a jacket or special protection.
- Even though there were dangerous chemicals about, they worked in their shirtsleeves rather than hazmat suits.
- 1973 December, MA Humphreys, “Classroom Temperature, Clothing and Thermal Comfort--A Study of Secondary School Children in Summertime. Building Research Establishment Current Paper 22/74”, in The Building Services Engineer, volume 41:
- For children in shirtsleeves or summer dresses, the optimum temperature was 24.5 degrees Centigrade, and for children wearing jumpers or blazers, it was 21.5 degrees Centigrade.
- 1993, Dana Stabenow, A Fatal Thaw, →ISBN:
- After a while hte sun grew warm enough to remove her sweatshirt and work in shirtsleeves.
- 2007, Darrel E. Bigham, Lincoln, Race, and Slavery:
- In a cluttered study Lincoln sits in shirtsleeves and slippers, at work on the document.
- 2017, R Aldous, Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian:
- While they were drinking prelunch martinis, a staffer entered the room nervously, the urgency of the moment signaled by the fact that he approached Graham in just his shirtsleeves.
- Non-professional status
- 1998, Nancy L. Stokey, “Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves: the economics of social mobility”, in Frontiers of Research in Economic Theory, →ISBN:
- (see title)
- 2006, Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Alexander Michaelides, Kalin Nikolov, From Shirtsleeves to Shirtsleeves in a Long Lifetime, page 24:
- Then the retiree goes back to a real shirtsleeves again if he lives long enough.
- 2008, Charles A. Lowenhaupt, “Freedom from wealth”, in The Journal of Wealth Management, volume 10, number 4:
- Creating freedom and functionality around wealth requires allowing the possibility of failure, the risk that the wealth might be lost and shirtsleeves are again the family vestment
- 2016, John L. Ward, Perpetuating the family business: 50 lessons learned from long lasting, successful families in business, page 5:
- But now I was confonted with a fatalistic concept: Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.
- Street clothes, without a jacket or special protection.