in the bucket

English

Prepositional phrase

in the bucket

  1. (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.
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