Descriptions & Equivalents
- abject poverty
- barely making it
- can't afford the basics
- cash did not trickle down to him
- charity case
- clothes stitched with patches
- couldn't make the minimum payment
- destitute
- down at the mouth
- eked out a living
- fell on hard times
- frayed around the collar
- from the bad side of town
- hardscrabble life
- impoverished area
- indigent poultry worker
- in the hole
- lived in a less fashionable neighborhood
- living hand to mouth
- living in a fleabag motel
- living paycheck to paycheck,
- needs financial assistance
- on welfare/food stamps
- out of money
- penury
- section 8
- selling his plasma for rent money
- severe deprivation of basic human needs
- shabby looking
- shoes duct-taped together
- squalid conditions
- starving student
- struggled to make ends meet,
- waited in the bread line
- wolf at the door
- wore suspenders and a barrel
- working three jobs just to pay the rent
- wrong side of the tracks
Poor. Having little if any in the way of cash or physically valuable assets. I was so poor I had to steal to eat.