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English Expression: Only have the clothing on your back
Over the last few years, hundreds of thousands of people have been left with only the clothing on their backs due to natural disasters.
To only have the clothing on your back means to have no possessions except for the clothing that you are wearing right now.
We could look at the Fukushima earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, the refugee crisis in Syria, the hugely devastating typhoons that have hit the United States and the Caribbean or the developing Rohingya refugee crisis along the Myanmar-Bangladesh border.
Wherever we look in the world, natural disasters and humanitarian crises have caused many people to experience great poverty.
In many cases, these people have run for their lives with only the clothing they were standing up in.
When a crisis hits, you run, and often, you do not have enough time to gather any of your belongings.
When the crisis is over, the only thing you have left is the clothing on your back.
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