Growing Numbers will find their pockets empty as cash-starved employers hold back wages.

因为资金匮乏的雇主拖欠薪水，越来越多人会发现口袋空空如也。

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He tried his other pockets, but they were too empty.

他又试了一下其他口袋，但它们都是空的。

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They put all into their own pockets, and not a bit of thread was put at the empty looms as they did before.

这些都进了他们自己的腰包，就像之前他们做的一样，空空的纺织机上一根线都没有。

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On a walking tour of the town center, Elliot points out Easton's cache of historic 19th-cenury buildings and pockets of empty storefronts.

NPR: The Commuters of Easton

Lucky for Grant it wasn't because he would have been turning out empty pockets on this grim evidence.

BBC: Ramos takes centre stage

The luckless politicians entrusted with the management of the country's empty pockets turned to Sir Alec for advice.

ECONOMIST: Sir Alec Cairncross