financially embarrassed

financially embarrassed

Having little to no money. Any chance we can go out to dinner next week? I'm just a little financially embarrassed right now.
See also: embarrass
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

financially embarrassed

Euph. broke. I'm a bit financially embarrassed at the moment. Gary found himself financially embarrassed when the time came to pay the bill.
See also: embarrass
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • of little avail
  • of little/no avail
  • to little avail
  • to little/no avail
  • think little of
  • think little of (someone or something)
  • standing on (one's) head
  • with (one's) eyes shut
  • with your eyes shut
  • with your eyes shut/closed
References in classic literature
Like many others financially embarrassed, we had to disappear for a time from the gay whirl--at least until Saturday night pay-day.
Titled but financially embarrassed, his ego far outpacing his income, he cuts a portly, pathetic figure, blustering and blundering his way into strife as he chases not one but two well-off wives - Mistress Ford and Mistress Page - who conspire to run rings around the corpulent corrupter.
In other words he has to keep his team a step ahead of the financially embarrassed remnants of what used to be a vibrant division.
Such actions can leave the victims and their families not only financially embarrassed or destitute, but also traumatised.
The fraud allegedly targeted those who were financially embarrassed proposing a quick purchase of their property and a lease back enabling families to continue to reside there as tenants.
But wasn't it all rather ironic that her announcement came just days after we were told not only would we lose a swathe of local courts, and the incumbent magistrates, but the financially embarrassed North Wales Police could be forced to shed 484 civilian staff and 250 front-line officers?
But each time we go out I end up paying for everything because he says he's "financially embarrassed" at the moment.
I urge the board to reconsider this "user -pays" approach to fee setting, send Letters of apology to the tow income members and reinstate those who were financially embarrassed or who felt compelled to resign over this issue.
As the financially embarrassed Western powers turn increasingly to oil-rich Arab states and corporations for help, the Arabs are in a position of unprecedented power to insist on a ceasefire and to broker a fair and lasting settlement for their Palestinian brethren.
Even among those attracted to a casino, most will come away poorer in pocket but not bankrupt or even financially embarrassed. The notion that casinos are somehow bound to turn modest gamblers into irresponsible addicts prepared to bet the car or house on the roll of a dice is nonsense.
During a night out at Liverpool's Pan American club on Thursday the Westlife singer, 23, found himself financially embarrassed and unable to get the drinks in.
THIS season's Scottish Cup is a multi-million pound bonanza for financially embarrassed clubs in the Premier League.
Financially embarrassed, Oldham sold seven players last summer, among them those who were most important to the side that had just been knocked out of the play-offs.
So the voice that he hears in Keats's supreme poems is that of a "radiant being" who has little connection with the moody, insecure, financially embarrassed, sexually frustrated young man that appears in the letters and in the many poems that McFarland does not value--e.g., the late poems to Fanny Brawne, which he dismisses as "virtually nugatory" (28).
A BRACE of goals from Kevin Scott earned financially embarrassed Oswestry their first victory of the season and lifted them off the foot of the League of Wales table.