coal and coke adj.
penniless, impoverished.
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![]() | Up the Frog. | |
![]() | (con. 1930s) Ain’t it Grand 44: Even when I was nearly Stone Coals and Coke I could usually scrape up enough for a smoke. | |
![]() | (con. 1930s) Muvver Tongue 18: A hard-up person is [...] ‘stone coals and coke’. | |
![]() | Cockney Rabbit. |