食い詰める

くいつめる
to go broke

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くいつめる【食い詰める】

〔暮らしが立たなくなる〕 be unable to survive; be no longer able to earn one's livelihood [make a living]; 〔貧乏する〕 be reduced to poverty [penury]; 《口》 be (down) on one's uppers; (無一文になる) go broke.

●食い詰めて down and out.

●彼は東京を食い詰めて大阪へ夜逃げした. Unable to make a living in Tokyo any longer, he did a midnight vanishing act to Osaka.