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 narrow circumstances, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, knitted, land-poor, narrow, nipped, on the edge, out of pocket, pinched-in, pinched, poor, poorly off, puckered, pursed, reduced, short, short of cash, short of funds, short of money, solidified, straitened, strangled, strangulated, strapped, unmoneyed, unprosperous, wasp-waisted, wrinkled