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“Even if I was dead-broke, I would roast a pig,” he explains on the short drive from his Hialeah home.
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“Even if I was dead-broke, I would roast a pig,” he explains on the short drive from his Hialeah home.
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“Even if I was dead-broke, I would roast a pig,” he explains on the short drive from his Hialeah home.
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The country is dead-broke and will be forced to comply with the demands of its creditors.
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The fact is, many fathers can't provide financial and emotional support to their children, not because they're deadbeat, but because they're dead-broke.
Radio Address On Fatherhood ITY National Archives 2000
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Instead of a dead-broke sailorman as never saves his pay,
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-11 Various
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"Look here," said Dick, "I'd better let you know right away that I'm dead-broke."
A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa Frederick Cornell
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Lenine-Trotsky issue, and that before night, spending his money at the famine prices in the worthless paper, he was a dead-broke millionaire.
The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 Harry H. Mead
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He could always get a job playing in saloons if he was dead-broke.
The song of the lark 1915
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But being dead-broke, I thought maybe you'd like to see things done in a decent manner.
We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914
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