in Queer Street
• in difficulty, typically by being in debt.
Similar:
impoverished,
poor,
penniless,
penurious,
in penury,
indigent,
insolvent,
impecunious,
moneyless,
hard up,
poverty-stricken,
needy,
in need,
in want,
destitute,
poor as a church mouse,
without a sou,
in straitened circumstances,
on one's beam ends,
unable to make ends meet,
on the breadline,
broke,
flat broke,
strapped for cash,
cleaned out,
strapped,
on one's uppers,
skint,
boracic,
stony broke,
stone broke,
pauperized,
beggared,
