stony-broke

adjective

US and Canadian term: stone-broke. slang, completely without money; penniless

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As I jokingly said to my missus, I should soon be stony-broke.

"I'm stony-broke, you see," he explained with increased bitterness.

I've been stony-broke myself a dozen times, and I've lived to think that these were the moments when I enjoyed my life the most.

Indeed, if they may be believed, the subalterns of "the Brigade" never vary from a condition which they always describe as stony-broke.

I tell these people they can sue her—but, man, you might as well sue the statue of Oliver Cromwell——" "He being stony-broke likewise," said I. "

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