Descriptions & Equivalents
- as broke as a joke
- bad credit
- bankrupt
- broke-ass
- busted
- can't find a job
- can't rub two nickels together
- checking account is running on fumes
- could barely pay her rent
- dead broke
- destitute
- died penniless
- down-at-the-heels
- down to my last penny
- drove a clunker
- due to her bleak financial situation she was forced to downsize
- economic hardship
- flat broke
- gets by on her looks
- I'm so poor I can't pay attention
- in the hole
- in the red
- I owe - I owe
- lived in a tent city
- lived in his car
- lived on the cheap
- money problems
- my ship has not come in
- no money
- penniless
- rode the rails
- slept under the freeway
- subsisted on Ramen and whiskey
- tapped out
- they don't have a dime between them
- will work for food
- wore thrift store clothes
Broke. Person has little or no money. Salvador was so broke he had to borrow money from his twelve year old niece to buy breakfast.
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