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Broker than the ten commandments

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Extremely impoverished. comparative-only, dated, humorous

    "I needed money—Dad would have said I was broker than the Ten Commandments—so I went to get my old job back..."

Etymology

A pun on the sense of broke 'without money' and broken, with potential reference both to Moses' destruction ('breaking') of the tablets on Mount Sinai (Exodus 32:19) and sinners' violation ('breaking') of the Ten Commandments in daily life.

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