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Poor Phrases

133 phrases and expressions related to "poor".

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A poor relation
A poor workman blames his tools
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio
All hell broke loose
Aren't you hungry for Burger King now? (Burger King advertising slogan)
As hungry as a hunter
As poor as a church mouse
Badly off
Barefoot and pregnant
Be It Ever So Humble There's No Place Like Home (John Howard Payne and Sir Henry Bishop song)
Beggar belief
Beggar my neighbour
Behind the curve
Born on the wrong side of the tracks
Chump change
Cleaned out
Dirt poor
Don't have a bean
Down at heel
Down on his luck
Eat humble pie
Eaten out of house and home
Eke out a living
Empty handed
Fall on hard times
Feel the pinch
Flat broke
For richer for poorer
From the wrong side of the tracks
Go for broke
Go hungry
Go without
Hand to mouth
Hard pressed
Hard times
Hard up
Hasn't got two cents to rub together
Hungry Heart (Bruce Springsteen song)
Hungry Hungry Hilton (Nickname of basketball player Hilton Armstrong)
Hungry for love
I Pity The Poor Immigrant (Bob Dylan song)
I don't mean maybe
If it ain't broke don't fix it
In straightened circumstances
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got swing
Jack fell down and broke his crown (line from nursery rhyme)
Just because you are paranoid it doesn't mean that they aren't out to get you
Lean and hungry
Lean and mean
Lean mean fighting machine
Lean times
Lean, mean and hungry
Live on a shoestring
Low rent
Make do
Make ends meet
Make poverty history
Mean Joe (Nickname of Joe Greene)
Mean Mr. Mustard (Beatles song)
Mean Streets (Robert De Niro movie)
Mean and selfish
Mean business
Mean spirited
Mendoza line (A baseball expression denoting a line marking a very poor performance)
Negative equity
Negatively privilege
No mean feat
Not a penny to bless yourself with,
Not much cop
Not two pennies to rub together
Of slender means
Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
On queer street
On skid row
On the breadline
On your beam ends
On your uppers
One law for the rich and another for the poor
Piss poor
Points mean prizes
Poor but honest
Poor little rich girl
Poor thing but mine own
Pour Some Sugar On Me (Def Leppard song)
Pour cold water on
Pour oil on troubled waters
Pour some sugar on me
Rags to riches
Rich man poor man beggerman thief
Rubber chicken (poor quality or overcooked chicken)
Rubber chicken curcuit (a speaking or fundraising event at which poor quality meat is served)
Say what you mean and mean what you say
See what we mean (Canon advertising slogan)
Shoestring budget
Sink estate
Social housing
Stony broke
Strapped for cash
The Beggar's Opera
The Golden Mean
The Poor Bloody Infantry (term used to describe the British infantry in WWI)
The Queen Of Mean (Nickname of Anne Robinson)
The burgers are better at Hungry Jack's (Hungry Jack's advertising slogan)
The cupboard was bare
The last straw that broke the camel's back
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer
Thin time of it
Trailer trash
We mean business
Well, she was just seventeen you know what I mean (The Beatles song lyric)
What do points mean? Points mean prizes (A catchphrase from Price Is Right)
What you mean we, white man?
White trash
Widow's mite
Working class

A poor relation
A poor workman blames his tools
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio
As poor as a church mouse
Dirt poor
I Pity The Poor Immigrant (Bob Dylan song)
Mendoza line (A baseball expression denoting a line marking a very poor performance)
Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
One law for the rich and another for the poor
Piss poor
Poor but honest
Poor little rich girl
Poor thing but mine own
Rich man poor man beggerman thief
Rubber chicken (poor quality or overcooked chicken)
Rubber chicken curcuit (a speaking or fundraising event at which poor quality meat is served)
The Poor Bloody Infantry (term used to describe the British infantry in WWI)
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer

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