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Meanings of pinched in anglès
Not having enough money to pay for necessities.
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Examples for "penniless"
Examples for "penniless"
1
Twenty years later, unemployed and virtually penniless, he bought the French Laundry.
2
My grandparents arrived penniless, started a small family business and voted Tory.
3
Unfortunately, right before they left Tucson, Jimmy informed her they were penniless.
4
And you can deploy multiple strategies to help prevent a penniless future.
5
He probably won't believe you're penniless no matter what we tell him.
1
No foreign and impecunious princes penetrate as far inland as our town.
2
The accusation of an impecunious secretary would be less horrible than this.
3
Wild-eyed poets and rusty-looking, impecunious painters were firmly warned away from Balmoral.
4
It's quite true-threeyears ago, when I was more than usually impecunious.
5
Perhaps, given his impecunious circumstances, he was no longer allowed to play banker.
1
He lived in the most penurious manner, and denied himself every indulgence.
2
In private and public expenditures he was extremely economical, but not penurious.
3
Lavish in her generosity to others, she was personally frugal, even penurious.
4
They were selfish and penurious, and hard-hearted and severe towards their servants.
5
Are there not many in their midst who are friendless and penurious?
1
Parents were too hard up to provide any extra money, she said.
2
The wind is blowing hard up above and the waves are high.
3
Some are hard up for a thousand pounds; some for a shilling.
4
I took the ring because I was hard up-neededmoney at once.
5
The only thing I can think about now is being hard up.
1
He died last year and left his widow and child in straitened circumstances.
2
Though always in straitened circumstances, the Garrisons were very hospitable.
3
He, however, is not at all sanguine, as Germany is itself in straitened circumstances.
4
What if he did, in straitened circumstances, accept their aid?
5
The year above mentioned, the last of that term, found the poet in straitened circumstances.
Usage of pinched in anglès
1
Rebecca pinched his knee, hard: he had gone too far, too fast.
2
Vera pinched a lemon free and held it under a neon light.
3
I pinched him first in my anxiety and then in my joy.
4
But the solar market has also been pinched by the economic downturn.
5
I was a dog to have pinched it in the first place.
6
In the Presidential debate Carter came across as carping, pinched and humorless.
7
And then she pinched it in the neck, and smoothed its feathers.
8
Thus the pinched circumstances of the family passed unnoticed by the community.
9
We pinched the Assistant Minister of Justice and the Minister of Religions.
10
It grew suddenly pinched; instinctively she put her hand over her heart.
11
I expect I pinched him some; that was for poor old Cy.
12
Until they hear you were pinched for breaking into your ex-wife's place.
13
And yet I am sure they must be pinched in some way.
14
Ahead they could see a few pinched lights where the village was.
15
The result was that Simon fell into the trap and was pinched.
16
She took Fou-Chow from Stépan and pinched him cruelly in her exasperation.
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Pinched across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
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