stony broke

Related to stony broke: Stony Brook State Park

stony broke

slang Having no money. I get paid next week, so can we go out to dinner then? I'm just stony broke right now. I'm stony broke once again and don't know how I'm going to pay my rent.
See also: broke, stony
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • stone broke
  • flat broke
  • be flat broke
  • go broke
  • dead broke
  • go for broke
  • be strapped for cash
  • broke
  • be as sound as a bell
  • break against (something)
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| Hammer hero Mark Dry admits he's stony broke despite his Commonwealth Games bronze.
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The club were stony broke just seven years ago when an official who had cleared off his mortgage tossed the loose change into the kitty to keep them afloat.
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Elizabeth is stony broke and can't even afford to treat herself to a night out at the pictures.'
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Especially if there may not be and a year later we'd have to come back, stony broke.'
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"He has a fortune one day and is stony broke the next."
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Hammer hero Mark Dry has admitted he's still stony broke despite his Commonwealth Games bronze.
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How can the country give money away if we are stony broke and borrowing money left, right and centre?
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Having squeezed his way to the first two rows to see Oasis, Morrissey, Damien Rice, Keane, Paul McCartney, Muse and a host of others, he's now come back home smelling and stony broke.'
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But while workmen broke the stone at Rowington (200 loads of it), the parishioners remained stony broke, or so they said.
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She was stony broke, jobless, a hopeless single parent with no fixed abode, a hard drinker and a push-over after two gin and tonics.
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Joe McIntyre: Latest loser turns out to be stony broke and addicted to painkillers.
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While love is blind, bank managers and credit card companies aren't and passionate affairs are often followed by a stony broke silence.
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And with the average wedding costing around pounds 15,000, most couples begin married life stony broke. So instead of a good night out, it's a dull night in with a bottle of cheap plonk and yet another re-run of the wedding video.
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