house broke
adj.— «Of course we were house-broke, and couldn’t afford a wedding.» —“Shelly Chagnon and John Datseris” by Judith Tenenbaum Globe and Mail (Toronto, Can.) June 25, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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