in the bucket
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English[edit]
Prepositional phrase[edit]
- (slang) Short of money, or in debt (by a specified amount).
- 1984, The Superstars of Rock, page 166:
- If you find that you are only $500 dollars in the bucket, don't think you will only need $500 dollars in cash, either.
- 2008, Stephen King, Just After Sunset:
- She said once they won a thousand, but by then they were already thirty thousand in the bucket.