strapped for cash
Short on funds
Strapped for cash means short of money, temporarily unable to afford things: I'd love to join you for dinner, but I'm strapped for cash until payday.
The image suggests being tightly bound or constrained by financial limitations.
Often shortened to just strapped: We're a little strapped this month.
- hard upLacking money, in need
- brokeLacking any funds
- pennilessCompletely without money
- side hustleSecondary income venture
- impoverishedExtremely lacking in money
debt · destitute · pawning · short on funds · maxed out · poverty · insolvent · skint · tight budget · counting pennies · hand-to-mouth · living paycheck to paycheck · indigent · ramen · down-and-out · poor · penury · scrape
- financial ruinbankrupt, bankruptcy, bust, busted, broke
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
- money slangbucks, dough, moolah, cheddar, cash
- spendingspending, shopping, purchases, expenses, bills