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| flying light(adjective, thin, pale, hungry) | |
| got high | |
| have munchies(adjective, thin, pale, hungry) | |
| in desperate straits | |
| in narrow circumstances | |
| in need(adjective, flat, poor, low) | |
| in need of(idiom, flat, poor, exhausted) | |
| like a bag of bones(idiom, thin, scrawny, skinny) | |
| on the breadline(adjective, idiom, flat, poor) | |
| on the edge | |
| on the rocks(idiom, flat, poor, exhausted) | |
| played out(flat, poor, shabby, exhausted) | |
| put to it(verb, phrasal verb, difficulty) | |
| short of funds | |
| short of money | |
| stone broke(adjective, flat, poor, low) | |
| thin as a rail(idiom, dull, slight, thin) | |
| truly needy(adjective, flat, poor, low) | |
| at a nonplus(idiom, difficulty) | |
| at a standstill(idiom, difficulty) |
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