dog-poor /'dɔgpuə/house poor Thành ngữ, tục ngữ
as poor as a church mouse
in the poorhouse
piss poor
poor as a church mouse
poor house
poor but clean
Idiom(s): poor but cleanTheme: 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 tasteTheme: 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."nhà cùng kiệt
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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
An house poor idiom dictionary is a great resource for writers, students, and anyone looking to expand their vocabulary. It contains a list of words with similar meanings with house poor, allowing users to choose the best word for their specific context.
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