Empty as a pocket before payday.
5 seconds sound clip from the Rocky Fortune - Oyster Shucker (Ep. 1) classic radio drama series episode.
You can hear this line at 00:14:20 in the radio play.
Quote context
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- There's a crap game going on in the dock office.
- We wait until somebody makes a foil the hard way and slip through in the confusion.
- The oyster boat is halfway down the pier, and we go aboard.
- Isn't that the barrel? Right there?
- That's it, that's it, all right. I'll tip it up to the light.
- Empty as a pocket before payday.
- I wonder where the elephants go to die.
- Yeah, somebody must have broken up the crap game. They're coming this way.
- That guy who put the arm on me is with him. You see the guy with no neck?
- Yeah.
- Where?
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