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Stony-broke   /stˈoʊni-broʊk/   Listen
Stony-broke

adjective
1.
Lacking funds.  Synonyms: broke, bust, skint, stone-broke.






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"Stony-broke" Quotes from Famous Books



... have loved the Australian trip. Your "Bush" sounds perfectly captivating, and, of course, I could do the illustrations you want. Besides, I'm stony-broke and, financially, the great god Gibbs appeals to me. I'd take my passage straight off—one would raise the money somehow—if it wasn't for—There! It's out. A MAN has come and ...
— Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land • Rosa Praed

... deference to everybody else which was sometimes painfully misunderstood. The stars, it must be said regretfully, in connection with so laudable an ambition, nearly always betrayed him, coming down with an unmistakably meteoric descent, stony-broke in the uttermost ends of the earth, with a strong inclination to bring the cause of that misfortune before the Consular Courts. They seldom succeeded in this design, since Llewellyn was usually able to prove to them in advance that it would be fruitless and ...
— The Path of a Star • Mrs. Everard Cotes (AKA Sara Jeannette Duncan)



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