birthday

*in one's birthday suit

Fig. naked; nude. (In the "clothes" in which one was born. *Typically: be ~; get [into] ~.) I've heard that John sleeps in his birthday suit. We used to go down to the river and swim in our birthday suits.

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in your birthday suit

(humorous)

not wearing any clothes

Usage notes: Babies are naked at the time of their birth.

He walked out of the bathroom in his birthday suit - obviously not expecting to find anyone in the flat.

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birthday suit

Nakedness, as in The doorbell rang, and here I was in my birthday suit. In 18th-century Britain this term originally referred to the clothes one wore on the king's birthday. Later it was jocularly transferred to bare skin, alluding to the condition of a newborn baby.

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birthday suit

Wearing no clothes. People said to be in their birthday suit are as naked as the day they were born.

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Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Amor	-	Roman Mythology, Late Roman, Spanish, Portuguese
Rosalina	ro-sah-LEE-nah (Spanish)	Portuguese, Spanish
Daria	DAHR-yah (Italian, Polish, Romanian), DAHR-ee-ə (English), DER-ee-ə (English), DAR-ee-ə (English)	Italian, Polish, Romanian, English, Croatian, Late Greek (Latinized)
Annalena	-	German
Jolanda	yo-LAHN-dah (Dutch, Italian)	Dutch, Slovene, Croatian, Italian
Ema	-	Spanish, Portuguese, Slovene, Czech, Slovak, Croatian