裸一貫

はだかいっかん
without any means
reduced to naked personal merit

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はだかいっかん【裸一貫】

●彼は裸一貫からあれだけのどえらい身上(_{しんしょう})になった. He made that huge fortune after starting with nothing (at all).

●裸一貫で with nothing [empty pockets]

・裸一貫で世に出る begin life with nothing [without a penny in one's pocket]; start from the bottom [zero].

●裸一貫になる be reduced to one's naked personal merit.

●裸一貫の人 a man with no property but his own body.