broker than the Ten Commandments
Adjective

broker than the Ten Commandments

  1. (simile, jocular, dated) Extremely impoverished.
    • 2018, Tara Westover, Educated:
      I needed money—Dad would have said I was broker than the Ten Commandments—so I went to get my old job back...
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