or stoney, stony-broke, adj. phr. (common).—Penniless; HARD-UP (q.v.); PEBBLE-BEACHED (q.v.).

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  1891.  LEHMANN, Harry Fludyer at Cambridge, 122. Pat said he was STONEY or BROKE or something but he gave me a sov., which was ripping of him.

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  1897.  MARSHALL, Pomes, 106. Full of fixes, assets ‘nixes,’ STONEY-BROKE, and hence these tears. Ibid., 120. On his right a STONEY-BROKE-ER In bad financial health.

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  1899.  R. WHITEING, No. 5 John Street, xxviii. You’re a toff, STONE-BROKE—that’s what you are.

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  1901.  W. S. WALKER, In the Blood, 159. ’Twon’t be a bad lay fer us when we’re STONEY BROKE down ’ere.

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