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| beat up(shabby, tacky, dingy, sordid) | |
| behind eight ball(adjective, idiom, flat, low) | |
| broken down(verb, adjective, phrasal verb, inferior) | |
| chronic poverty area | |
| cleaned out(bankrupt, destitute, impoverished, penniless) | |
| come off badly | |
| dead broke(adjective, flat, exhausted, bankrupt) | |
| deprived of(exhausted, lacking, wanting, bankrupt) | |
| devoid of(exhausted, lacking, wanting, bankrupt) | |
| down at heel(destitute, impoverished, deprived, penurious) | |
| down to bedrock | |
| feeling the pinch | |
| gone to seed(mean, shabby, squalid, sleazy) | |
| hands tied(adjective, vulnerable, exposed, helpless) | |
| having little money | |
| in a bad way(adjective, idiom, bad, unhappy) | |
| in debt(bankrupt, destitute, penniless, insolvent) | |
| in dire circumstances(adjective, idiom, sick, distressed) | |
| in dire straits(adjective, depressed, deprived, disadvantaged) | |
| in great need financially poor(idiom, sick, distressed, destitute) |
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