under hatches
adjective
Roget 751:
restrained,
constrained;
imprisoned
etc.
v.;
pent up;
jammed in,
wedged in;
under lock and key,
under restraint,
under hatches;
in swaddling clothes;
on parole;
in custody,
doing time
etc.
(prisoner)
754;
cohibitive†;
coactive
etc.
(compulsory)
744†.
stiff,
restringent†,
strait-laced,
hidebound,
barkbound†.
ice bound,
wind bound,
weather bound;
cabined cribbed confined"
[Macbeth];
in Lob's pound,
laid by the heels.
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Roget 754:
imprisoned
etc.
751;
in prison,
in quod [Lat.],
in durance vile,
in limbo,
in custody,
doing time,
in charge,
in chains;
under lock and key,
under hatches;
on parole.
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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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