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- adjective UK, slang lacking in
funds ; withoutassets ; poor.
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Examples
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Sometimes when I come home there are bromeliads or potless aloe vera in the sink.
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Sometimes when I come home there are bromeliads or potless aloe vera in the sink.
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Sometimes when I come home there are bromeliads or potless aloe vera in the sink.
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Memo to website people - it might be easier if you eliminated the self-certifying categories, as it's all deeply subjective, and one man's 'wealthy' is another man's 'potless loser' still remember the one who ticked the box marked 'fat cat' only for our initial phone conversation to reveal he was unemployed and sleeping on his parents sofa.
Archive 2008-02-01 juliette 2008
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Memo to website people - it might be easier if you eliminated the self-certifying categories, as it's all deeply subjective, and one man's 'wealthy' is another man's 'potless loser' still remember the one who ticked the box marked 'fat cat' only for our initial phone conversation to reveal he was unemployed and sleeping on his parents sofa.
????? juliette 2008
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I can't believe I just heard that, can W looked towards the five workmen at a nearby table firmation. i't you think he's a ponce, leaving his kids in the trying lurch and his old woman potless while he reaps efit of her couple of grand? 'men nodded vigorously.
two women Cole, Martina 1999
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So Gooners can rest assured that, despite the short-term shock value of Koscielny and Szczesny's entry for Angus Deayton's Hilarious Football Bloopers 7 DVD coming to a bargain bin near you soon, if they reach the summer potless once more that it'll be down, not to a trophy-famine fuelled win aversion, but to Not Being Quite Good Enough.
The Guardian World News John Ashdown 2011
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The Fiver | Popping a cap; and potless once more | Rob Bagchi and John Ashdown Football's most tea-timely email brought to you by guardian.co.uk's team of hacks.
The Guardian World News John Ashdown 2011
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We've sold anyone decent, and we appear to be potless and so unable to buy replacements.
The Guardian World News Tom Lutz 2011
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Next month it is a big day out at Wembley for potless
Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk Brian Oliver 2010
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