Today's question
how ⊙ "I am poor" is expressed in English? ⊙
Tomorrow is double eleven, is the wallet of the tail people okay? It's time to learn how to express "poverty" in English.
1. Strapped is penniless and underfunded
▷I'm a little strapped.
I'm a little tight on hand.
▷I'd love to go to dinner with you guys, but I'm a bitstrapped for cash.
I'd love to have dinner with you, but I'm a little tight on my hands.
2. as poor as a church mouse 一贫如洗
▷Although very rich in his youth, he is now as poor as a church mouse.
Although he was rich when he was young, he is now very poor.
▷I'm as poor as a church mouse!
I was so poor that I ate dirt.
3. Broke bankrupt
▷ I'm broke. I was penniless.
▷Balton went broke twice in his career.
Balton experienced two bankruptcies in his lifetime.
Run out of dough no more dough / No money
▷ I've run out of dough.
I'm out of money.
5. Scrape by barely getting by
▷Borrowing money from friends and relatives helped him toscrape by.
He lives on the help of friends and family!
6. Not have a bean without money
▷I don't have a bean.
I don't even have a son.
7. Hand to mouth to barely make ends meet
▷We lived from hand to mouth, never knowing where the next meal was coming from.
We lived a tight life, and we always ate the last meal and did not eat the next meal.
8. Keep body and soul together 挣钱糊口
▷I hate my job, but I have to keep body and soul togethersomehow.
I hate my job, but I have to earn money anyway.
Make both ends meet to make ends meet
▷With five children in college, Steve still manages to make both ends meet.
With five children in college, Steve still has a way to keep up with the family.
Poverty Poverty, poverty
poverty line poverty line
poverty-stricken destitute
▷My family were living below the poverty line when I was little.
When I was very young, our family lived below the poverty line.
▷The program was to help those poverty-stricken families.
The program is designed to help impoverished families.