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Discover LudwigThe phrase "empty pocket" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone has no money or resources available.
Example: "After paying all the bills, I found myself with an empty pocket at the end of the month."
Alternatives: "broke" or "penniless."
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On a given snap, Smith read defenses, forecast which receivers would be open, felt pressure, counted time using an internal clock, faked to the options he knew were futile and found an open receiver and led him to an empty pocket of grass.
Salahuddin also said he had committed "grab and run" robberies of jewelry stores and pawnshops, for which he was never apprehended or charged: "I would ask for the biggest plate of gold they had, dump it into a big, empty pocket in my coat, and out the door".
Beginning with a 1950 composition called "Down This Road," her first entirely original song, and ending with 1955's "Empty Pocket Waltz," she mailed them roughly three dozen "guitar songs," all self-recorded in her tiny Greenwich Village studio at 23 Grove Street.
You can't pick an empty pocket.
Docking studies revealed the mode of interaction of the tested compounds into the empty pocket of the isozymes.
At the bottom of an empty pocket, a nearly empty pocket, there's a wrinkled scrap of paper.
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And empty pockets.
A generation ago, Chinese people had empty pockets in their dreary boiler suits.
Reflexively Jack scratched deep inside empty pockets, then licked his fingers.
Hospitals are running on empty these days, empty pockets, that is.
You could lay a thousand dollars on Godzilla beating Cofi and go home with empty pockets.
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