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poor as Job
vs
poor as a church mouse
poor as Job
adj
Extremely poor, destitute.
poor as a church mouse
adj
Very poor, to the point of starving or begging; utterly destitute.
How often have the words
poor as Job
and
poor as a church mouse
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)