having no money 没钱；囊中羞涩；破产 I'm always broke by the end of the month. 我总是一到月底就没钱花了。 During the recession thousands of small businesses went broke (= had to stop doing business). 经济衰退期间成千上万家小企业被迫关门了。 flat/stony broke (= completely broke) 彻底破产
Extra ExamplesTopics Moneyc1I'm stony/stone broke at the moment. 我现在一分钱都没有。 The company went broke last year. 这家公司去年倒闭了。 I can't go out tonight—I'm flat/stone broke. 今晚我不能出去——我身无分文。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
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Idioms
go for broke
- (informal)
to risk everything in one determined effort to do something 孤注一掷
if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it
- (informal)
used to say that if something works well enough, it should not be changed 未损勿修；能用莫换