strapped for money
Short on cash
Strapped for money means lacking sufficient funds, usually temporarily.
Someone who is strapped for money has enough to get by but not much extra for discretionary spending.
The expression suggests being tightly constrained, as if bound by financial limitations.
I'd love to go out to dinner, but I'm strapped for money until payday.
The phrase is often shortened to just strapped, with the same meaning.
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
- unemploymentBeing without paid work
- frugalityEconomical resource management
- belt tighteningReducing expenditures deliberately
- povertySevere lack of resources
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