strapped (?.)
- badly off
- beat
- beggared
- bound
- broke
- busted
- destitute
- distressed
- down to bedrock
- embarrassed
- feeling the pinch
- fettered
- flat
- flat broke
- fortuneless
- hampered
- handcuffed
- hard up
- ill off
- impecunious
- in Queer Street
- in bonds
- in chains
- in irons
- in narrow circumstances
- in reduced circumstances
- in straitened circumstances
- ironbound
- land-poor
- manacled
- narrow
- on the edge
- oofless
- out of pocket
- penurious
- pinched
- poor
- poorly off
- reduced
- shackled
- short
- short of cash
- short of funds
- short of money
- squeezed
- stone-broke
- stony
- straitened
- tethered
- tied
- tied down
- tied up
- trammeled
- unmoneyed
- unprosperous