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Discover LudwigThe phrase "stone broke" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to be completely without money or resources. Example: After years of overspending and poor financial planning, John found himself stone broke and unable to pay his bills.
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stone broke
adjective
Having no money.
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"I was stone broke.
"It's beautifully raised, grass-fed cattle from Stone Broke Farms that marbles very well," Mr. Nischan said.
Yet here I was stone broke.
They were dead broke ("Dharma") bums, who much to the frustration of the pro-capitalist Hefner-style playboys, got laid all the time despite being stone broke and sometimes gay to boot.
He turned up one night in Medellín, stone broke, preaching sermons in bars and whorehouses.
When the lithography stone broke, Mr. Rauschenberg decided to incorporate the mishap into his work.
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When was he wiped out? "At 50 I was stone-cold broke, I had no agent, two young children.
Just two years ago, after developing a smartphone game for children that sank like a stone, he was broke.
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