To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back. 2
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Laconics, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt", Sorbienne (1610–1670); also used in Oliver Goldsmith, The Haunch of Venison.Tom Brown (satirist)
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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt;
It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.Oliver Goldsmith
I had a shirt made up that says, "I consistently make poor life choices." The shirt was not very popular.
Joey Comeau
The national dress of Great Britain is, from the ground up, a pair of Roman sandals, a kilt, a gunbelt, a t-shirt bearing the likeness of Mr. T, a garland of flowers and a horned Viking helmet. (How to be British)
Ben Croshaw
God knows, it is as much as I can do to put meat and bread on my own table; & hourly some poor starving wretch comes to my door, to put in his claim for a part of it.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There was pride in the shirt. There was sweat in the shirt. There was blood in the shirt.
Phil Brown
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