broke
adjective /brəʊk/
/brəʊk/
[not before noun] (informal)Idioms - having no money
没钱；囊中羞涩；破产 - I'm always broke by the end of the month.
我总是一到月底就没钱花了。 - During the recession thousands of small businesses went broke (= had to stop doing business).
经济衰退期间成千上万家小企业被迫关门了。 - flat/stony broke (= completely broke)
彻底破产
Topics Moneyc1- I'm stony/stone broke at the moment.
我现在一分钱都没有。 - The company went broke last year.
这家公司去年倒闭了。 - I can't go out tonight—I'm flat/stone broke.
今晚我不能出去——我身无分文。
Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- go
- completely
- flat
- totally
- …
- I'm always broke by the end of the month.
Idioms
go for broke
- (informal) to risk everything in one determined effort to do something
孤注一掷
if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it
- (informal) used to say that if something works well enough, it should not be changed
未损勿修；能用莫换