英语词汇“on one's uppers”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

on one's uppers

informal Extremely short of money: Joe invited us out to lunch because we were both on our uppers...

A timeless comedy, this story is about the upper classes on their uppers while the inimitable Jeeves is always on hand to sort out their mess.
But new research suggests that far from being on their uppers, people approaching retirement today are better off than their parents' generation was when it retired, with small debts and big assets.
Her favourite characters are those on their uppers, losers with dignity, viewed by the story teller with patronising assumptions but to the end deeply unknown.

Synonyms

penniless, impoverished, poverty-stricken, poor, destitute, impecunious, indigent, down and out, pauperized, without a penny to one's name, without two farthings/pennies to rub together;

insolvent, ruined;

needy, in need, in want, hard up, on the breadline, hard-pressed, in reduced/straitened circumstances, deprived, disadvantaged, distressed, badly off;

beggarly, beggared

informal up against it, broke, flat broke, strapped (for cash), without a brass farthing, without a bean, without a sou, as poor as a church mouse, on one's beam-ends

British informal stony broke, skint, boracic (lint)

North American informal stone broke, without a red cent, on skid row

formal penurious

See parent entry: upper

单词	on one's uppers
释义	on one's uppers informal Extremely short of money: Joe invited us out to lunch because we were both on our uppers... A timeless comedy, this story is about the upper classes on their uppers while the inimitable Jeeves is always on hand to sort out their mess. But new research suggests that far from being on their uppers, people approaching retirement today are better off than their parents' generation was when it retired, with small debts and big assets. Her favourite characters are those on their uppers, losers with dignity, viewed by the story teller with patronising assumptions but to the end deeply unknown. Synonyms penniless, impoverished, poverty-stricken, poor, destitute, impecunious, indigent, down and out, pauperized, without a penny to one's name, without two farthings/pennies to rub together; insolvent, ruined; needy, in need, in want, hard up, on the breadline, hard-pressed, in reduced/straitened circumstances, deprived, disadvantaged, distressed, badly off; beggarly, beggared informal up against it, broke, flat broke, strapped (for cash), without a brass farthing, without a bean, without a sou, as poor as a church mouse, on one's beam-ends British informal stony broke, skint, boracic (lint) North American informal stone broke, without a red cent, on skid row formal penurious See parent entry: upper
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