stony-broke

adjective

"I don't mind you or all the world knowing we're stony broke," he went on, frankly.

I cant stake anything, he said; Ive already told you Im cleaned out,stony-broke, as the slang goes.

"Don't count on me to pay your fines for you; I'm always stony broke," laughed Opal, as she put on her coat.

She foresees a gambler's end for me, stony broke, languishing in dungeons and all that sort of thing.

Although it was only Monday and he had been at work all the previous week, Philpot was already stony broke.

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