broker than the Ten Commandments

短语

发音

AU

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Extremely impoverished.

    过时 幽默

词源

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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