- down and out
- ▶ adjective DESTITUTE, poverty-stricken, impoverished, penniless, insolvent, impecunious; needy, in straitened circumstances, distressed, badly off; homeless, on the streets, vagrant, sleeping rough; informal hard up, (flat) broke, strapped (for cash), without a brass farthing, without two pennies to rub together; Brit. informal stony broke, skint; N. Amer. informal without a red cent, on skid row.wealthy.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.