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A poor relation
A poor workman blames his tools
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio
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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
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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