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Either the nut lost its armor or the town lost its windows.
means Stripped of an outer shell, or bombarded with artillery — context decides whether peanuts or panic.
from From Old English scell, the hard outer casing; the military sense arrived once explosive projectiles were literally called shells.
Two oppositesCan mean protected (shelled creatures) or de-shelled (peanuts).
Slang spendShelled out: paid up, often reluctantly.
War originArtillery shells were once hollow, powder-filled iron balls.