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What is another word for as poor as a church mouse?

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Adjective
Having below average income or lacking money to sufficiently live comfortably
poor
bankrupt
broke
moneyless
penniless
necessitous
beggarly
penurious
impecunious
indigent
needy
needful
destitute
underprivileged
deprived
bust
insolvent
strapped
fortuneless
skint
unprosperous
famished
threadbare
pauperized
beggared
badly off
bad off
behind eight ball
cleaned out
craptastic
dirt poor
dirt-poor
down and out
down-and-out
down at heel
empty-handed
flat broke
hard up
impoverished
in debt
in need
in penury
in reduced circumstances
in straitened circumstances
in the red
in want
low-income
low-paid
on one's beam-ends
on one's uppers
on the breadline
on the rocks
poverty-stricken
short of money
stone broke
stony broke
stony-broke
strapped for cash
truly needy
unable to make ends meet
without a penny
without a penny to one's name
without a sou
without two brass farthings to rub together
without two farthings to rub together
without two pennies to rub together
ruined
disadvantaged
in Queer Street
distressed
boracic
boracic lint
without a bean
without a red cent
out at elbows
out of pocket
flat
short
down on luck
dead broke
on skid row
without a brass farthing
pinched
up against it
hard-pressed
tapped out
straitened
reduced
suffering
busted
lacking
have-not
cash-strapped
wiped out
over a barrel
without a dime
in the gutter
unable to keep the wolf from the door
on last leg
down to last penny
stony
bankrupted
homeless
scanty
low
meagerUS
meagreUK
indebted
broken
overdrawn
cashless
crippled
hurting
wanting
unmoneyed
impencunious
in need of
down to last cent
depressed
neglected
on the dole
signing on
in Chapter 11
unfortunate
unlucky
without a shot in one's locker
without money
handicapped
hapless
in distressed circumstances
miserably poor
financially poor
extremely poor
in great need
very poor
in dire circumstances
in distress
in dire straits
economically disadvantaged
ill-fated
without two pennies farthings to rub together
ill-starred
rundown
derelict
struggling
on the bread line
on one's beam ends
poor as a church mouse
economically deprived
financially disadvantaged
pathetic
abject
vagrant
unfavored
vagabond
finished
denuded
bereft
forlorn
underserved
dispossessed
on a tight budget
discriminated against
out of money
unaffluent
unprivileged
stone-broke
on the streets
on the skids
in the poorhouse
financially distressed
in financial difficulties
financially embarrassed
not having two pennies to rub together
not having two farthings to rub together
without means of support
in a bad way
short of cash
shabby
slummy
seedy
ghost
shanty
ghetto
run down
run-down
skid row
“He also learns that his brother is very well off and confides in the priest that he is unsure how his brother will receive him since he is as poor as a church mouse now.”
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