Right through the flesh so as to reach the bone. Frequently hyperbolical, or in figurative contexts.

Without money; having no money.

Not having a penny; having no money; poor; destitute. Also as n. (with the): penniless people as a class.

Having no money.

Having no money, penniless; in want of money.

Without a cross (in various senses of the word; as e.g. †without a coin, penniless).

Lacking money; destitute; = penniless, adj.

Not wealthy, poor. Also as n. (with the and plural agreement): unmoneyed people as a class.

Without coin, moneyless, penniless.

Of a person or group. In financial difficulties; impoverished. Also: without possessions. Now usually colloquial.

out of pocket: out of funds; worse off financially (by some transaction).

Limited or restricted by lack of, or concern for, money; spec. detained for lack of available money (now rare).

slang. In predicative use = broken, adj. 7; ruined financially, bankrupt; (often less seriously) penniless; also broke to the wide (see wide, n.) or…

Having or characterized by financial difficulties.

short of money.

Penniless.

figurative. Of resources: Diminishing, becoming more and more ‘slender’. colloquial or slang. †Also of a person: reduced in funds, short (of money).

Without so much as a pound (of money); poor.

Not having a shilling; being without (even) a shilling.

Poor, penniless.

Having no money at one's disposal; without funds.

= impecunious, adj.

colloquial (originally slang). Short of money; poorly off (for something); in a state of want.

Without cash, penniless, impecunious.

without a stiver; penniless.

slang. Australian and New Zealand. ‘Cleaned-out’; without a penny.

slang (originally U.S.). Short of money. Now frequently const. for. Also in extended use and cash-strapped adj.

transitive (in passive). Gambling slang. To be unable to continue playing due to losing or lack of money; to be out of luck or money.

colloquial or technical. Finance, Of money: Difficult to obtain except on high terms; also transferred of the money-market when money is scarce. Of…

‘hard up’, ruined (cf. stony-broke adj. at stony, adj. compounds 3).

figurative. slang. Short for stony-broke adj. at compounds 3.

Having no (ready) money; temporarily poor; hapless.

= stone-broke adj. at stone, n. compounds 2a.

Australian slang. Very poor, having no money. Also as an intensifier: total, utter. Cf. sense C.

Characterized by penny-pinching; (also) short of money; needing to economize.

colloquial. = skint, adj. Also occasionally with out. Now rare.

Penniless, broke.

Nautical. The shore, any part of the coastline off which a ship is at anchor; hence on the beach, ashore; retired (the beach = land, civilian life)…

colloquial (now chiefly British). Having no money, penniless. Cf. pot, n.1 11c.

Rhyming slang (in full boracic lint) for ‘skint’, penniless.

Short or out of money; ‘broke’.

In full brassic lint: = boracic, adj. 2; penniless, ‘skint’.