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   Hi Mike,   
      
   Fri 24 Jan 2025 at 10:10, you wrote to me:   
      
    >> "We'd been rather badly off for books", as far as I can see, is   
    >> something along the lines of either   
    >>     1: "We hadn't got enough money to afford buying books", or   
    >>     2: "We had been having a shortage of books"   
    MP> As an English speaker, I am not sure what they were trying to say   
    MP> there - "we'd been rather badly off for books."  Your guesses are as   
    MP> good as mine.  I would add that they could mean their "accounting   
    MP> books," which might mean that they have fallen behind in their   
    MP> payments or have fallen into debt.   
      
   I've checked and it turns out that "badly off" means the opposite of "well   
   off", according to both M.-W. and Cambridge dictionaries. Seems like it's   
   mostly british. So, #1 is a good guess still. :-)   
      
      
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