without a stitch
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- She felt liberated as she relaxed by the pool without a stitch of clothing on.
- without a stitch of clothing
Examples
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Without a stitch of clothing on, sitting and facing you...
Fiction book (1995) -
Obama was the emperor with no clothes; now everyone is just starting to see him standing there... without a stitch.
Blog text (25) -
I had never owned a bathing suit, and my mother did not approve of children of any age "running around without a stitch."
Fiction book (2002) -
The morning after the World Cup match, I woke up and Tiny and I were beside each other in bed without a stitch of clothing.
Fiction book (2000) -
And I don't care if the woman or 11-year-old girl was walking in the middle of the sidewalk without a stitch of clothes on; she still should not be attacked and raped!
Blog text (14) -
It was a matter of minutes before they discovered the witch's husband, curled up like a stray dog, and—worse—painted the color of a vampire bat, without a stitch of clothing.
Fiction book (1992) -
On a hot summer day, he enjoyed the freedom of wandering around the house without a stitch on.
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When they were at the beach, the kids laughed and played without a stitch on.
Synonyms
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Not wearing any clothes on the body
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Not wearing any clothes
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Completely without any clothes
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9.3
Not wearing any clothes
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3.7
Not wearing any clothes
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Having no clothes on
Not wearing any clothes
Not wearing any clothes
Not wearing any clothes
Not wearing any clothes
Not wearing any clothes, often appearing in poetry
A state of having no clothes on
A person who has no clothes on
A person who is not wearing any clothes
Antonyms
How Clothed
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase literally combines 'without' (absence) with 'stitch' (a sewing loop), so there is a plausible link to lacking sewn garments; however the leap from 'no stitches' to the idiomatic meaning 'completely naked' requires figurative inference and knowledge of the set phrase. Because the sense depends on this conventionalized, slightly metaphorical extension rather than straightforward composition, a B1 learner who only knows the constituents may not reliably derive the meaning.
Etymology
Without a stitch comes from the simple image of not wearing a single stitch of clothing, as if you had no sewn clothes at all. So it means 'completely naked'.