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Phrase(s): down-and-out
1. having no money or means of support. • There are many young people down-and-out in the city. • John gambled away all his fortune and is now completely down-and-out. 2. someone who is impoverished. • There were a couple of down-and-outs sleeping under the railway bridge. • The down-and-out touched Martin for a fiver.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs