- get the shorts
- to be insolventOr temporarily without any money:Suddenly he's got the shorts... he can't come up with the scratch and he's hurting. (Sanders, 1977)
How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. R. W. Holder. 2014.
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