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close to the bone
vs
poor as Job
close to the bone
adj
Destitute.
Penetrating and relatable, to the point of causing discomfort.
poor as Job
adj
Extremely poor, destitute.
How often have the words
close to the bone
and
poor as Job
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)