- having no money
- I'm always broke by the end of the month.
- During the recession thousands of small businesses went broke (= had to stop doing business).
- flat/stony broke (= completely broke)
Extra ExamplesTopics Moneyc1- I'm stony/stone broke at the moment.
- The company went broke last year.
- I can't go out tonight—I'm flat/stone broke.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- go
- completely
- flat
- totally
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Idioms
See broke in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarygo for broke
- (informal) to risk everything in one determined effort to do something
if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it
- (informal) used to say that if something works well enough, it should not be changed
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