Synonyms:
- badly off,
- beat,
- beggared,
- bound,
- broke,
- busted,
- destitute,
- distressed,
- down to bedrock,
- embarrassed,
- feeling the pinch,
- fettered,
- flat,
- flat broke,
- fortuneless,
- hampered,
- handcuffed,
- hard up,
- ill off,
- impecunious,
- in Queer Street,
- in bonds,
- in chains,
- in irons,
- in narrow circumstances,
- in reduced circumstances,
- in straitened circumstances,
- ironbound,
- land-poor,
- manacled,
- narrow,
- on the edge,
- oofless,
- out of pocket,
- penurious,
- pinched,
- poor,
- poorly off,
- reduced,
- shackled,
- short,
- short of cash,
- short of funds,
- short of money,
- squeezed,
- stone-broke,
- stony,
- straitened,
- tethered,
- tied,
- tied down,
- tied up,
- trammeled,
- unmoneyed,
- unprosperous