flat broke
Without a cent
Flat broke means having no money at all.
The flat intensifies broke the way it does in phrases like flat wrong or flat refused—completely, absolutely.
I can't lend you anything; I'm flat broke.
The expression is informal and emphatic, stronger than simply being broke.
- pennilessCompletely without money
- bankruptUnable to repay debts
- destituteUtterly without means
- down and outLacking money and hope
- strappedLacking available funds
hard up · busted · skint · poverty · empty pockets · counting pennies · overdrawn · in the red · debt · living paycheck to paycheck · scraping · struggling · tight budget · homeless · desperate · hungry · payday · bills
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
- financial ruinbankrupt, bankruptcy, bust, busted, insolvent
- intensifiersvery, really, extremely, absolutely, incredibly
- money slangbucks, dough, moolah, cheddar, cash
- depleteddepleted, exhausted, drained, spent, empty
- spendersspendthrift, overspender, big spender, free spender, reckless spender
resource availability
flat brokehaving deep pockets
Being extremely wealthy
billionaire · millionaire · fat cat · money to burn · sitting pretty
flat, broke, flats, flatly, flatten, flattened, flattening, flatness, flatter