cut off without a cent

Here, clearly, was not one of those situations so often contrived by novelists, in which the luckless heir presumptive, cut off without a cent, weds the pretty cousin who gets the fortune and they live happily together ever afterward.

It was town talk the way he made her toady to his folks, even after he'd been cut off without a cent.

Suppose you knew he was about to be cut off without a cent?

He wired his protests, and received in return an assurance that he would accept his new custodian or be cut off without a cent.

I then came home; and here, the first man that I met on shore was Billings, the chap who first persuaded me to go to sea: he knew all about my father's family, and told me it was true I was cut off without a cent, and that Harry Hazlehurst had been adopted by my father.