English Dictionary

shirt sleeves

名詞

複数形 複数形のみ 広義

Preceded by in: wearing only a shirt without a coat, jacket, or comparable protective covering over it.

日本語の意味

ジャケットやコートなどの外套を着ず、シャツだけを着用している状態

The manager arrived in shirt sleeves, ready to handle the inspection personally.

課長は上着を着ずにシャツだけの姿で到着し、検査に自ら対応する準備ができていた。

意味（1）

Preceded by in: wearing only a shirt without a coat, jacket, or comparable protective covering over it.

A bunch of workmen were lying on the grass of the park beside Macquarie Street, in the dinner hour. It was winter, the end of May, but the sun was warm, and they lay there in shirt-sleeves, talking.

意味（2）

(by extension) A working-class socioeconomic status (not requiring a professional business jacket).

It is to Andrew Carnegie that the expression is attributed in America, There are only two generations between shirt sleeves and shirt sleeves, The remark is certainly not original with the genial Scot, who is playing such a successful star engagement before the American people, nevertheless, it is a most satisfactory sentence. If the wealth which springs from the efforts made in shirt sleeves by one generation, is enjoyed in broad-cloth only by the next two, and that, in the fourth remove, shirt sleeves again become ascendant, so much the better for the country.