1736 Canting Dictionary / L / LOW Tide [money]
when there's no Money in a Man's Pocket.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Low Tide in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).