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poor as a church mouse

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*poor as a church mouse and *poor as church mice
very poor. (*Also: as ~.) My aunt is as poor as a church mouse. The Browns are poor as church mice.
See also: church, mouse, poor


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As to the current economic crisis: "It's the weirdest thing: all my life I've been poor as a church mouse, and as soon as the world starts to go down, I start to go up
Campbell really ought to stay on at MIT, poor as a church mouse, doing research in what he does best.
While other couples all around are as poor as a church mouse.
 
 
 
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