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