shatting on one's uppers

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English

Etymology

From variant of shitting + uppers.

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Phrase

shatting on one's uppers

  1. (US slang) Completely out of money; broke.
    • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 188:
      ‘She has to blow and she's shatting on her uppers. She figures the peeper can get her some dough.’