Synonyms:
- badly off,
- clamped,
- compressed,
- concentrated,
- condensed,
- consolidated,
- constricted,
- contracted,
- cramped,
- distressed,
- down to bedrock,
- embarrassed,
- feeling the pinch,
- hard up,
- ill off,
- impecunious,
- in Queer Street,
- in narrow circumstances,
- in reduced circumstances,
- in straitened circumstances,
- knitted,
- land-poor,
- narrow,
- nipped,
- on the edge,
- out of pocket,
- pinched,
- pinched-in,
- poor,
- poorly off,
- puckered,
- pursed,
- reduced,
- short,
- short of cash,
- short of funds,
- short of money,
- solidified,
- straitened,
- strangled,
- strangulated,
- strapped,
- unmoneyed,
- unprosperous,
- wasp-waisted,
- wrinkled