in the red (?.)
- at a loss
- bankrupt
- burdened with debt
- deep in debt
- destitute
- down-and-out
- embarrassed
- encumbered
- fortuneless
- homeless
- in debt
- in difficulties
- in embarrassed circumstances
- in hock
- in the gutter
- in the hole
- indebted
- insolvent
- involved
- landless
- moneyless
- mortgaged
- out
- out of funds
- out of pocket
- penniless
- plunged in debt
- propertyless
- tied up
- to the bad
- unprofitably
- without a sou