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You only have to look at France's formidable finance minister and listen to her to know she must have boasted a shirtful of badges and the ability to fashion a fully floating raft out of a few twigs and a tuft of string.

Christine Lagarde: The woman who would be the world's banker | Observer profile 2011

A shirtful of sore bones: _vulgariter_, a thrashing.

The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

Hogan or any of his brothers, would stand a strong chance of a shirtful

The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

Wait, Jemmy, I'll be big yit; an ', be the blessed Gospel that's about my neck, I'll give the same masther a shirtful of sore bones, the holy an' blessed minute

The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

"Well, my dear friend," said Reilly, "put up your cudgel; I really don't covet a shirtful of sore bones; but, after all, perhaps you would have found my fist a match for your cudgel."

Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831

I can only imagine how painful it would be to get an eyeful of bright light from one of those new tazers, or worse, a shirtful of Cinnabon icing from a Gla-zer.

No Fact Zone 2010

You, my blue light special: with those raptor eyes, lackadaisical sighs, wise assed smiles in the comments; every hundred dollars in your heartbeat, that shirtful of soul;

Lorna Dee Cervantes 2008

"I've taken to the woods, headed for Dixie, with a shirtful of headquarter papers.

Special Messenger 1899

Moses, Mr. Reilly, but you had a narrow escape, Devil a man in the barony can handle a cudgel as I can, and it was a miracle, and you may thank his lordship here for it that you hadn't a shirtful of sore bones. "

Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831