impoverished vs without brass farthings to rub together

impoverished

adj
  • Reduced to poverty. 

  • Having lost a component, an ingredient, or a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted. 

without brass farthings to rub together

How often have the words impoverished and without brass farthings to rub together occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )