out at elbows
adjective
Roget 804:
poor,
indigent;
poverty-stricken;
badly off,
poorly off,
ill off;
poor as a rat,
poor as a church mouse,
poor as a Job;
fortuneless†,
dowerless†,
moneyless†,
penniless;
unportioned†,
unmoneyed†;
impecunious;
out of money,
out of cash,
short of money,
short of cash;
without a rap,
not worth a rap
etc.
(money)
800;
qui n'a pas le sou [Fr.],
out of pocket,
hard up;
out at elbows,
out at heels;
seedy,
bare-footed;
beggarly,
beggared;
destitute;
fleeced,
stripped;
bereft,
bereaved;
reduced;
homeless.
in want
etc.
n.;
needy,
necessitous,
distressed,
pinched,
straitened;
put to one's shifts,
put to one's last shifts;
unable to keep the wolf from the door,
unable to make both ends meet;
embarrassed,
under hatches;
involved
etc.
(in debt)
806;
insolvent
etc.
(not paying)
808.
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Roget 874:
disgraced
etc.
v.;
blown upon;
shorn of its beams"
[Milton],
shorn of one's glory;
overcome,
downtrodden;
loaded with shame
etc.
n.;
in bad repute
etc.
n.;
out of repute,
out of favor,
out of fashion,
out of countenance;
at a discount;
under a cloud,
under an eclipse;
unable to show one's face;
in the shade,
in the background;
out at elbows,
down at the elbows,
down in the world.
inglorious;
nameless,
renownless†;
obscure;
unknown to fame;
unnoticed,
unnoted†,
unhonored,
unglorified†.
shameful;
disgraceful,
discreditable,
disreputable;
despicable;
questionable;
unbecoming,
unworthy;
derogatory;
degrading,
humiliating,
infra dignitatem [Lat.],
dedecorous†;
scandalous,
infamous,
too bad,
unmentionable;
ribald,
opprobrious;
errant,
shocking,
outrageous,
notorious.
ignominious,
scrubby,
dirty,
abject,
vile,
beggarly,
pitiful,
low,
mean,
shabby base
etc.
(dishonorable)
940.
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Roget 226:
divested
etc.
v.;
bare,
naked,
nude;
undressed,
undraped;
denuded;
exposed;
in dishabille;
bald,
threadbare,
ragged,
callow,
roofless.
in a state of nature,
in nature's garb,
in the buff,
in native buff,
in birthday suit;
in puris naturalibus [Lat.];
with nothing on,
stark naked,
stark raving naked [Joc.];
bald as a coot,
bare as the back of one's hand;
out at elbows;
barefoot;
bareback,
barebacked;
leafless,
napless†,
hairless.
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