含义: as poor as a church

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poor 成语

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."

be a poor hand at|a poor hand at|hand

v. phr. To be inept, untalented, or clumsy in some activity. Archibald is a poor hand at tennis so no one wants to play with him.
Antonym: BE A GOOD HAND AT.

in poor shape|poor shape|shape

adv. phr. In a bad condition. Most of the streets of Chicago are in poor shape due to the heavy snow and frost during the winters.

poor as a church mouse|church|church mouse|mouse|p

adj. phr., informal Penniless; broke; extremely poor. The newly arrived boat people were poor as church mice.

poor-mouth|mouth|poor

v. To be constantly complaining about one's poverty; keep saying how one cannot afford the better things in life. Uncle Jack indulges in an awful lot of poor-mouthing, but we know that he has half a million dollars stashed away in a secret savings account.

poor

poor
the poor
poor, or needy, people collectively

poor as a churchmouse

poor as a churchmouse
Having little or no wealth and few possessions, as in She's poor as a churchmouse, so you can't expect her to donate anything. The reason for this long-used simile is unclear, but most believe that, since churches are not known for storing food, a mouse inside one would fare poorly. It has survived such earlier phrases as poor as Job. [Second half of 1600s]

poor relation

poor relation
An inferior member of a group, as in Many regard Turkey as the poor relation in the European alliance. This expression, first recorded in 1720 for a family member in humble circumstances, began to be used figuratively in the mid-1900s.

poor taste, in

poor taste, in
Also, in bad taste. Not suitable, unseemly, offensive, as in His criticism of the Pope was in poor taste, or That television interview was in very bad taste. These idioms use taste in the sense of “discernment of what is appropriate.”