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stone-broke
adjective
Alternative form of stone broke
synonyms
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This town of 236 souls is stone-broke.
This time an effervescent Carole Lombard played a manicurist who gives up her fortune-hunting ways after becoming smitten with a stone-broke playboy (Fred MacMurray).
Set in the swinging '60s instead of the more securely closeted '40s, "One Arm" relies on a scene-setting (and theme-announcing) storyteller, a stone-broke writer named Sean (Noah Bean), whom Ollie meets in New Orleans.
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"I was stone broke.
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.
"It's beautifully raised, grass-fed cattle from Stone Broke Farms that marbles very well," Mr. Nischan said.
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.
Men with faces that looked as if they had been carved from stone broke down and cried, oblivious of the fact that they were on live television.
The barge, which was carrying 40 to 50 tons of stone, broke loose from a dock on Davenport Street in Stamford, less than a mile from Mr. Lyew's home, sometime around 3 a.m.
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