Skint

//skɪnt//

"Skint" in a Sentence (13 examples)

Can you lend me some money? I'm skint.

I'm skint.

I'd like to come too, but I'm skint, so I can't.

I'm pretty skint at the moment.

If that doesn't work either, we'll be skint.

Come the end of the month, Tom is usually skint.

Tom is completely skint again. He can't even pay for his bus ticket.

Uncle Tom is skint again.

Tom is completely skint again. He can't even afford his bus fare.

"Tom opens doors for me." "Tom? Tom, who took you to a posh nightclub in Munich and was skint after two cocktails? He'll open doors for you all right – trapdoors! How can you be so naive?"

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There were a mixture of local people with cold, pinched faces and skint and harassed looking tourists sitting around fondling their itchsome facial hair, their tongues lolling into fizzy yellow pints of lager.

Mr Grave proceeded to give a stern warning to those “errant pupils” who, against the rules, had been smuggling their mobile phones into school. This was just about everyone, though Zoe was far too skint to even dream of ever owning one.

About 2-3 weeks prior to Emma Finch’s death you told two of your friends Abi that “he hoped his Nan died soon because he was skint[…]and[…]that he thought he was the only one getting money in the will when she died”.

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