shatting on one's uppers
English
Etymology
From variant of shitting + uppers.
Pronunciation
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Phrase
shatting on one's uppers
- (US slang) Completely out of money; broke. [from 19th c.]
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 188:
- ‘She has to blow and she's shatting on her uppers. She figures the peeper can get her some dough.’
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 188: