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the cupboard is bare
idiom
used to say that there is no food in a house or that there is no money, etc. available: 橱柜空空;家里一点吃的都没有了;没钱（做某事）
I'd like to help you out, Paul, but I'm afraid the cupboard is bare.保罗，我倒是想帮助你，不过恐怕我也是两手空空。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Lacking things
bankrupt
bankruptcy
be hard up (for something)idiom
bereft
chronic disease
if it wasn't/weren't forphrase
in someone's hour of needidiom
inappeasable
lack
lacking
minus
scrape
scream
scream (out) for somethingidiom
shortage
shy
skimpily
starve someone/something of something
starved
taken
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