stony broke

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Alternative form of broke: without any money. Australia,UK,alt-of,alternative,not-comparable
    — He had arrived at a crisis of impecuniosity compared to which the small circumstance of being pebble-beached and stony-broke might be described as comparative affluence.

词形变化

stony-broke alternative

词源

From stony (“like a stone”) + broke, after earlier stone broke.
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