out of pocket (?.)

• at a loss
• badly off
• bankrupt in
• bare of
• bereft of
• denuded of
• deprived of
• destitute of
• devoid of
• distressed
• down to bedrock
• embarrassed
• empty of
• feeling the pinch
• for want of
• forlorn of
• hard up
• ill off
• impecunious
• in Queer Street
• in default of
• in narrow circumstances
• in reduced circumstances
• in straitened circumstances
• in the red
• in want of
• lacking
• land-poor
• missing
• narrow
• needing
• on the edge
• out
• out of
• pinched
• poor
• poorly off
• reduced
• scant of
• short
• short of
• short of cash
• short of funds
• short of money
• shy
• shy of
• squeezed
• straitened
• strapped
• to the bad
• unblessed with
• unmoneyed
• unpossessed of
• unprofitably
• unprosperous
• void of
• wanting