stony broke
adjEtymology
From stony (“like a stone”) + broke, after earlier stone broke.
Definitions
Alternative form of broke
Alternative form of broke: without any money.
- He had arrived at a crisis of impecuniosity compared to which the small circumstance of being pebble-beached and stony-broke might be described as comparative affluence.
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