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poor as a church mouse
poor as a church mouse
synonyms
stony broke
skint
strapped for cash
poverty-stricken
stone broke
unable to make ends meet
without a penny (to one's name)
without a sou
without two pennies to rub together
without brass farthings to rub together
strapped
beggared
broke
insolvent
poor
impecunious
penniless
on one's uppers
on one's beam ends
on the breadline
penurious
in need
hard up
in want
in straitened circumstances
indigent
in penury
cleaned out
pauperized
flat broke
destitute
impoverished
moneyless
boracic
needy
poor as a rat
poor as Job
in Queer Street
poor as Job's turkey
in queer street
poor as Job
indigent
poverty-stricken
close to the bone
dirt-poor
destitute
deprived
skint
arm
farthingless
poor as a church mouse
definitions
adj
Very poor, to the point of starving or begging; utterly destitute.