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out at elbowsphraseor out at the elbows wearing torn or worn-out clothesHe was a bit out at elbows until the church took him in. ragged, raggedy, ragtag, tatterdemalion, tattered bedraggled, scroungy, scruffy, shabby, threadbaredown-at-the-heels(or down-at-heel also down-at-the-heel or down-at-heels) decked (out), dolled up, dressed upspiffy lacking money or material possessionsThe family was out at the elbows, yet did what they could to help others. beggared, beggarly, broke, destitute, dirt-poor, down-and-out, famished, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needful, needy, pauperized, penniless, penurious, poor, poverty-stricken, skint(chiefly British), threadbare deprived, disadvantaged, dispossessed, unaffluent, underprivilegedbankrupt, bankrupted, bust(or busted), insolventpossessionless, ruineddepressed, distressed, hand-to-mouth, hardscrabble, pinched, poorish, reduced, straitenedcash-strapped, low, short, tapped out down on one's luck, out of pocket affluent, deep-pocketed, fat, fat-cat, flush, moneyed(also monied), opulent, rich, silk-stocking, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do comfortable, prosperous |