shirt sleevesとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

shirt sleeves pl (複数形 only)

1. Preceded by in: wearing only a shirt without a coat, jacket, or comparable protective covering over it.
   • 1923, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Torestin”, in Kangaroo, London: Martin Secker […], OCLC 5175814, page 1:

     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.

   • 2003, Jefferson M. Koonce, Human Factors in the Training of Pilots, →ISBN, page 122:

     In flying in cold climates, people use the cabin heater to maintain a comfortable working environment and fly in shirt sleeves or a light jacket.

   • 2011, Nikolai Gogol, Taras Bulba: And Other Tales, →ISBN, page 220:

     Ivan Ivanovitch, when the weather gets too warm, throws off his pelisse and his remaining upper garments, and sits, in his shirt sleeves, on the balcony to observe what is going on in the courtyard and the street.

2. (by extension) A working-class socioeconomic status (not requiring a professional business jacket).
   • 2005, Erastus Wiman, Chances of Success: Episodes and Observations in the Life of a Busy Man, →ISBN:

     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.

別の表記

• shirt-sleeves
• shirtsleeves

アナグラム

• silver sheets

名詞

shirt-sleeves pl (複数形 only)

1. Alternative form of shirt sleeves
   • 1923, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Torestin”, in Kangaroo, London: Martin Secker […], OCLC 5175814, page 1:

     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.

   • 2016, Abhijit Bagchi, The Early T. S. Eliot: An Artist in the Making, →ISBN:

     As Sherma S. Vinograd points out that we move from “Arms that are braceleted and white and bare” near the table and shawl to the narrow streets inhabited by “lonely men in shirt-sleaves."

名詞

shirtsleeves pl (複数形 only)

1. Alternative form of shirt sleeves
   1. 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.

   2. 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.