broker than the Ten Commandments

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Extremely impoverished. comparative-only,dated,humorous
    — I needed money—Dad would have said I was broker than the Ten Commandments—so I went to get my old job back...

词源

A pun on the sense of broke 'without money' and broken, with potential reference both to Moses' destruction ('breaking') of the tablets on Mount Sinai (Exodus 32:19) and sinners' violation ('breaking') of the Ten Commandments in daily life.
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