on one's uppers
• extremely short of money.
• "Joe invited us out to lunch because we were both on our uppers"
Similar:
penniless,
impoverished,
poverty-stricken,
poor,
destitute,
impecunious,
indigent,
down and out,
pauperized,
without a penny to one's name,
insolvent,
ruined,
needy,
in need,
in want,
hard up,
on the breadline,
hard-pressed,
deprived,
disadvantaged,
distressed,
badly off,
beggarly,
beggared,
up against it,
broke,
flat broke,
strapped (for cash),
without a brass farthing,
without a bean,
without a sou,
as poor as a church mouse,
on one's beam-ends,
stony broke,
skint,
boracic (lint),
stone broke,
without a red cent,
on skid row,
penurious,
