Meaning: poor

pʊr /pʊən.
people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)
adj.
deserving or inciting pityhaving little money or few possessionscharacterized by or indicating povertylacking in specific resources, qualities or substancesnot sufficient to meet a needunsatisfactory

dirt poor Idiom, Proverb

as poor as a church mouse

very poor, having little, the wolf is at the door How can they refuse to help her? She's as poor as a church mouse.

in the poorhouse

poor, having little money, as poor as a church mouse In 1936, they were in the poorhouse. They couldn't grow crops, and nobody had a job.

piss poor

of poor quality, not well made "Grandpa said, ""That's a piss-poor tractor. Don't buy it."""

poor as a church mouse

(See as poor as a church mouse)

poor house

(See in the poorhouse)

poor but clean

Idiom(s): poor but clean

Theme: SOCIAL - ACCEPTABLE

having little money but clean and of good habits, nonetheless. (Either offensive or jocular.)
• My salary isn't very high, and I only have two color TV sets. Anyway, I’m poor hut clean.
• When Fred uttered the phrase poor but clean in reference to some of the people working in the yard, Ellen went into a rage.

in poor taste

Idiom(s): in bad taste AND in poor taste

Theme: RUDENESS

rude; vulgar; obscene.
• Mrs. Franklin felt that your joke was in bad taste.
• We found the play to be in poor taste, so we walked out in the middle of the second act.

A poor man's something

Something or someone that can be compared to something or someone else, but is not as good is a poor man's version; a writer who uses lots of puns but isn't very funny would be a poor man's Oscar Wilde.

Root hog or die poor

(USA) It's a expression used in the Southern USA that means that you must look out for yourself as no one's going to do it for you. (It can be shortened to 'root hog'. A hog is a pig.)

to be as poor as church mice

"His family have always been as poor as church mice."

dirt-poor

Very poor. That extra may be affluent now, but she was dirt-poor as a child.

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to break the bank to cost an arm and a leg to pay through the nose to splash out on something to be loaded to be sitting on a small fortune|to be sitting on to have money to burn to not have a bean to rub together to be as poor as church mice to be skint to be broke to scrimp and save a scrooge a skinflint to have more money than sense to burn a hole in your pocket dipper dippy dipshit dipso dipstick dipsy dipwad dire dire straits, in direct direct (one's) attention to (someone or something) direct (something) against (someone or something) direct (something) at (someone or something) direct (something) to (someone or something) direct against direct at direct attention to direct message direct to direction dirt dirt cheap dirt file dirt nap dirtbag dirt-poor dirty dirty (one's) hands dirty beau dirty big dirty cop dirty crack dirty deal dirty dog dirty great dirty great/big dirty joke dirty laundry dirty linen dirty look dirty look, give a dirty mind, a dirty money dirty old man dirty one's hands dirty pool dirty trick dirty tricks dirty up dirty weekend dirty word

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