to be down on one's luck; in straitened circumstances; frustrated and disappointed with life

(of handwriting) messy and hard to read; scrawly; not neat

to live in poverty and despair; penniless and frustrated; destitute and without hope

(idiom) extremely poor and frustrated; to be wretched and penniless; to crack up under the strain of poverty and sorrow

cursory and casual; doing things in a careless or surface-level manner without going into depth

To be at the end of one's rope; describes someone who has no way out and is down and out, disheartened, or in a miserable state of poverty

not in-depth; casual; perfunctory or sloppy in work or manner

To gather or collect water, as in low-lying areas

Natural disasters involving either too little rainfall or too much water

(literary) marshy ground or a place where muddy water collects

floods caused by excessive rain or overflowing rivers

a small bubble on the skin filled with serum and caused by friction, burning, or other damage

blister on the skin, often caused by a burn or friction

careless or sloppy; doing things in a hurried and negligent way

to do one's duty in a careless and sloppy manner just to get it over with; to work without care or effort

destitute; poverty-stricken