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Перевод: penniless
[прилагательное] без гроша; безденежный; нуждающийся; бедный
Тезаурус:
- He was our college barber; and at a time when most of us were penniless he cut hair for a shilling (= 5p, to those who do not know what a shilling was).
- There have been far too many examples of artists "living for the moment", putting their faith in others to run their career, and waking up to find themselves penniless, out of favour with the public and feeling rather stupid.
- It was like some anonymous temporary room of an orderly penniless young man.
- As penniless brokers they often had to dissipate energy on make-do and mend activities.
- She flew in and got one, and hurried home, penniless but content.
- When he came to hear of her liaison with a penniless painter, his vanity was stung and he insisted that "honour" be satisfied.
- What we will end up with, no matter who wins, is a Minister for Sport who sits some distance from the corridors of power, who will likely be attached to some other ministry like Agriculture and Fisheries (file "Sport" under "Codswallop") and who will spend a parliamentary career powerless, penniless and potless.
- The fact was, that he made the journey; shabby and penniless, he had to look up addresses of kinsfolk in English towns; he had been robbed by con-men on board the ship, for Dad was a simple, trusting person, one might say, naive.
- Wilde was a Welshman as were two other of the great Edwardian boxers, Freddie Welsh, the lightweight champion of Britain in 1909, and Jim Driscoll, the world bantamweight champion who ended his days "Wandering around the pubs of London, penniless, and dying at 44".
- CONTRARY to popular belief, not all Poles are penniless factory workers perpetually on strike.
- It seemed bizarre that a band plagued by such huge problems on an international scale should wish to waste their time attempting to sue a small time and, to be frank, penniless magazine.
- That you are now almost penniless?
- We are also screening THE OBJECT OF BEAUTY, starring Andie MacDowell and John Malkovich in the cautionary story of two Americans stranded in London who discover themselves penniless, and how this affects their relationship.
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