OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 47584

poor as a church mouse

Meanings (ES + gloss)
más pobre que una rata
Very poor, to the point of starving or begging; utterly destitute.
But to return to our public functions; that we have had a decided turn for the church appears from the fact that the church-mouse is a recognised order amongst us, and it is our ju…
She was an Eastern Virginia woman, and, although poor as a church mouse, thought herself superior to West Virginia people.
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