phrase

• There are no resources or money available for a particular purpose.

  ‘Second, Obama could be constrained by a simple fact: the cupboard is bare.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The cupboard is bare, we've given all we've got.’
  • ‘The cupboard is bare, the tank is empty.’
  • ‘The cupboard is bare on the eve of the World Cup.’
  • ‘They believe, unlike Ron Arnold, that the cupboard is bare.’
  • ‘The whole Conservative economic message is that " the cupboard is bare ".’
  • ‘Her response is to tell him that the cupboard is bare.’
  • ‘The problem is that the cupboard is bare behind Smith.’
  • ‘Now this has been got rid of and they will soon find that the cupboard is bare of good money-making ideas.’
  • ‘Currently, the cupboard is bare.’