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on one's beam ends
vs
penurious
on one's beam ends
penurious
adj
Miserly; excessively cheap.
Not bountiful; thin; scant.
Impoverished; wanting for money.
How often have the words
on one's beam ends
and
penurious
occurred in a corpus of books?
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