be in queer street

  • 101out of pocket — Synonyms and related words: 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 …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 102out on a limb — Synonyms and related words: exposed, in Dutch, in a bind, in a fix, in a mess, in a pickle, in a predicament, in a scrape, in a spot, in deep water, in trouble, liable, naked, nonimmune, on Queer Street, on the spot, open, susceptible …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 103pinched — Synonyms and related words: attenuated, badly off, cadaverous, careworn, clamped, compressed, concentrated, condensed, consolidated, constricted, contracted, corpselike, cramped, desperate, distressed, down to bedrock, drawn, emacerated, emaciate …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 104poor — Synonyms and related words: DP, Lenten, Mickey Mouse, Spartan, abject, abominable, abstemious, against, amateurish, arrant, artless, ascetic, atrocious, attenuated, austere, awful, bad, badly off, bankrupt, bare handed, barren, base, beggared,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 105reduced — Synonyms and related words: abated, ablated, adulterated, attenuated, badly off, bated, belittled, best, bottom, bowed down, broken, brought down, brought low, cachectic, conquered, consumed, contracted, crushed, curtailed, cut, debased,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 106short — Synonyms and related words: 3 D, Bermuda shorts, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Spartan, Technicolor, Western, aback, abbreviate, abbreviated, abridged, abrupt, abruptly, adulterated, aggressive, all in all, amount, amplify, animated cartoon, apart from …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 107squeezed — Synonyms and related words: badly off, clamped, compressed, concentrated, condensed, consolidated, constricted, contracted, cramped, distressed, down to bedrock, embarrassed, feeling the pinch, hard up, ill off, impecunious, in Queer Street, in… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 108straitened — Synonyms and related words: Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, ascetic, austere, badly off, bound, bounded, conditioned, confined, copyrighted, cramped, desperate, destitute, disciplined, distressed, down to bedrock, dwarfed, dwarfish, embarrassed,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 109strapped — Synonyms and related words: 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… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 110unprosperous — Synonyms and related words: badly off, broke, depressed, destitute, dire, distressed, donsie, doomful, down to bedrock, embarrassed, evil starred, fatal, feeling the pinch, fortuneless, funest, hapless, hard up, ill off, ill starred, impecunious …

    Moby Thesaurus