RichThesaurus
poor as a church mouse
vs
wealthless
poor as a church mouse
adj
Very poor, to the point of starving or begging; utterly destitute.
wealthless
adj
Having little or no wealth; poor.
How often have the words
poor as a church mouse
and
wealthless
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
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