birthday suit


not wearing any clothes

TRANSLATION

birthday suit = das Adamkostüm, splitternackt --- GOOGLE INDEX birthday suit: approximately 700,000 Google hits

STATISTICS

IN THE PRESS

Recording artist Pink stripped down to her BIRTHDAY SUIT in a new billboard for animal rights organization PETA.

(United Press International news service)

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Tulsa police had to use a Taser on a man not once, but twice, until he could finally be taken into custody after being spotted walking in his BIRTHDAY SUIT down a major highway.

(Daily News)

Did you
know?

(in your) birthday suit
noun phrase (humorous)

- not wearing any clothes

(Cambridge Dictionary)

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A "birthday suit" is a humorous expression for the state of being naked. It literally means to wear what someone wore on his or her day of birth, that is, nothing.

It serves as a euphemism for writers and speakers seeking a delicate or amusing way to refer to the state of nudity without a reference to intimate relations. At least 200 years old, the phrase "birthday suit" was widely used in the 20th century and remains popular to this day.

According to Robert Hendrickson’s Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, the phrase was recorded as early as 1771, but was probably in use as a spoken expression before that. Although the specific coinage has not been documented, its origin is obvious.

All people are born naked. The birthday suit, therefore, is the suit worn on the day of birth. The comical yet non-vulgar nature of the phrase has lent it an enduring popularity since the 18th century.

(adapted from Wisegeek.com)

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SYNONYMS

in the buff, disrobed, naked, nude, in the raw, unclad, unclothed, without a stitch

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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation

"When in Munich, don't be surprised to see people in the "Englischer Garten" sunbathing in their birthday suits."


Thanks to Helga for suggesting today's OWAD

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