shatting on one's uppers

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From variant of shitting + uppers.

Pronunciation[edit]

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Phrase[edit]

shatting on one's uppers

  1. (US slang) Completely out of money; broke. [from 19th c.]
    • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 188:
      ‘She has to blow and she's shatting on her uppers. She figures the peeper can get her some dough.’
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