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stony broke

a. (context UK English)and (context Australian English) Completely without money to spend.

Usage examples of "stony broke".

You have obviously suffered considerable ill treatment and you are stony broke.

The shyster might not have been stony broke, but he surely must have been sorry he had ever hooked up to this combination when he died of an apparent heart attack while strolling the grounds this August past.