on uppers

on (one's) uppers

Informal

Impoverished; destitute.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ofek	-	Hebrew
Matild	-	Hungarian
Roger	RAH-jər (English), ro-ZHE (French)	English, French, Catalan, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Dutch
Adina (2)	-	Romanian
Yijun	-	Chinese
Phaedrus	-	Ancient Greek (Latinized)