English Dictionary

shirttail

名詞

広義

The single or split (then rather plural) bottom part of a shirt, below the waist, especially in the back, which, when not tucked into trousers or other vestment, hangs over the wearer's tail-end, like a tail.

日本語の意味

シャツの裾、特にウエスト下部の、裏側に位置する部分。ズボンやベストなどに挿入されず、着用者の尻尾のように垂れ下がる部分

A shirttail peeked out beneath his blazer, giving him a slightly rumpled look.

彼のブレザーの下からシャツの裾がのぞいていて、少しだらしない印象を与えていた。

意味（1）

The single or split (then rather plural) bottom part of a shirt, below the waist, especially in the back, which, when not tucked into trousers or other vestment, hangs over the wearer's tail-end, like a tail.

According to Linder, one of the rituals of the hunt entailed cutting off the shirttail of a hunter who shot at and missed a deer.

意味（2）

(by extension) The tail-end or periphery of something.

There was something — did you ever catch hold of the shirttail of a dream and try to pull it back into your consciousness?

意味（3）

A tenuous connection.

Although consumers' cooperatives have not yet been benefitted, the more they become tied on to the shirttail of the agricultural bloc, the more political power they are going to have.

意味（4）

A distant kinship.

She belongs to the true sisterhood of the majestic five daughters born to America's inland Neptune, but she always has been regarded as a poor relation, a sort of shirttail cousin, by her big sisters.

意味（5）

A small portion

“What good's a one-horse farm, I ask you, a few acres of tobacco and a shirttail of corn and cotton—just enough to see a man through the winter and maybe buy seed to plant and get another run till the crops are in?

意味（6）

Something small and unimportant.

He can't get no further behind. He can sholy take care of this little shirttail of a farm while me and you are whupping them Japanese.

shirttails （ plural ）