Meaning of birthday suit | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Nakedness, unclothed skin; an exposure of a human's natural anatomy without clothing.
   humorous, idiomatic, often
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see birthday, suit.

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Examples

“George embarrassed his aunt by answering the door in his birthday suit⟳.”

“Nature, the universal tailor, provides for every other animal a birthday suit⟳ of clothes which is to outlast his life; but man, though so peculiarly sensitive to the assaults of the elements, is ushered into this nether sphere without any covering, in order⟳ that he may be compelled to exert his faculties, and become⟳ his own⟳ tailor, and thereby his own⟳ civilizer.”

“At last⟳ I'm down to the nitty-gritty, my original birthday suit⟳. Where do I put⟳ my hands? I need⟳ pockets.”

“The terms naturalistic and naturalism suffer⟳ from the fact that they have⟳ a range of meanings, covering a variety of things from the Romantic submission to nature or the collecting of butterflies to the practice of bathing on the beach clad only in one's birthday suit⟳.”

“A person suddenly caught naked by the collapse of a building wall is treated quite differently than a person who intentionally “streaks” a public gathering in his or her birthday suit⟳.”

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