stony-broke
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Last June he walked into the Haig stony-broke.
From Time Magazine Archive
He resigned, stony-broke, when Bush went bankrupt in 1933, and cast about for "something fundamental" to get into.
From Time Magazine Archive
"You never struck two such stony-broke cusses in yer life!"
From The Amateur Cracksman by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
And the King said, "Well, we are stony-broke."
From The Glugs of Gosh by C. J. (Clarence James) Dennis
He's sure stony-broke, not being able to turn a card because of the marshal.
From A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West by Frank Norris
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