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be as poor as church mice (old-fashioned)
to be very poor. When we first got married, we were as poor as church mice.
See also: mice, poor

a broad church (British)

an organization that includes many different types of people with different opinions. The Congress remains a broad church with members from a diversity of backgrounds.
See also: broad


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The increased popularity of home churching for missionary families has also influenced Baptist missions efforts.
In the course of 9 chapters Orme traces the young person's pathway into life, from "Arriving" through "Growing Up:" The first large segment of the life cycle: pregnancy, birth, baptism and naming, and the churching of the mother through to when children of both sexes were ready (and often willing) to stand on their own--in marriage, in the eyes of canon and common law, and in their trades and professions.
We begin by examining The Churching of America: 1776-1990: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy, a scholarly book by two university professors, published in 1992 by Rutgers University Press.
 
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