“Flat broke”in other languages

Same idea, different pictures

French mows the wallet like a wheat field, fauché comme les blés: nothing left standing. Italian is “at the green”, al verde. A popular explanation points to candles once used at auctions, whose bottom end was painted green: when the flame reached the green, time and money were up.

Russian is bare as a falcon, гол как сокол. One explanation says the сокол here was a smooth iron battering ram rather than the bird.