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
Now, her father, the Prince, is stony-broke, and hasn't left his house for years for fear of arrest.
From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir
"You never struck two such stony-broke cusses in yer life!"
From The Amateur Cracksman by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
When I found myself stony-broke, I hunted up my Baltimore relations.
From Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch by Vachell, Horace Annesley
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