the cupboard is bare
used to say that there is no food in a house or that there is no money, etc. available:
I'd like to help you out, Paul, but I'm afraid the cupboard is bare.
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Lacking things
- bankrupt
- bankruptcy
- be hard up (for sth) idiom
- bereft
- catch
- cry out for sth
- demand
- hole
- lack
- lacking
- need
- need sth like you need a hole in the head idiom
- needful
- short
- shortage
- take
- the UN
- unsatisfied
- vacuum
- want
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