stony-broke

British

adjective

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

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stony-broke

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

"And now I'll be as good as stony-broke for the next two years."

From Tom Gerrard by Louis Becke

And me over there working thirteen and fourteen hours a day, and half the time stony-broke!

From The Avenger by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

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.

From Masterman and Son by W. J. (William James) Dawson

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