(1) Whenever you go to the council asking for new books and equipment they say they are skint but they can find money for this kind of thing.

(2) But loads of skint people from the estates around here use it, and it's creaming off cash from them.

(3) I had previously owned a mustard-coloured Maxi and hated it, but I was so skint I found myself buying another one.

(4) Some suggest that Jackson is so skint that last year he was forced to cough up a $2 million diamond watch as collateral for a bank loan.

(5) U251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510We were always skint before,u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb Rowley says of the days before the band got signed.

(6) U251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510I wasn't going to play this season because I was skint ,u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb said Shaw.

(7) I was so skint I couldn't even get the kids anything for Christmas.

(8) U251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510He knew I was skint , so he asked if I wanted to come and work in this place for eight hours a day,u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb recalls Hemphill.

(9) A thief had to empty his pockets out in the court dock to prove he was skint .

(10) Being students, we were always skint and wanted the easiest, most flexible, and most profitable form of income we could get.

(11) We have had a very bad election result, we are effectively skint , our activists are discouraged and our membership is falling.

(12) Due to reckless recent shiny gadget business acquisitions, I'm completely skint .

(13) And he doesn't mind taking on the job when I'm skint .

(14) By that, I mean we were too skint to really do anything.

(15) Laura, currently on placement at Salford's Hope Hospital, said: u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510I'm a skint student.u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb

(16) With lager prices having risen 160% in 10 years, is it any wonder they're skint ?

(17) But the worst time to be on Oxford Street is when you are skint and are shopping for someone else.

(18) And what about women who can't afford to pay and have low pain thresholds - do they just lie there screaming in agony because they are skint ?

(19) After years spent as a skint student with only a few pounds to my name, I learnt to sniff out the best deals behind the bar.

(20) You have a lot of money in October, then come March you're skint again.