want; need, neediness; lack, necessity, privation, distress,
difficulties, wolf at the door.
bad circumstances, poor circumstances, need circumstances,
embarrassed circumstances, reduced circumstances, straightened
circumstances; slender means, narrow means; straits; hand to mouth
existence, res angusta domi [Lat.], low water, impecuniosity.
beggary; mendicancy, mendicity†; broken fortune, loss of fortune;
insolvency &c (nonpayment) 808.
empty pocket, empty purse; light purse; beggarly account of empty
boxes.
[poor people] poor man, pauper, mendicant, mumper†, beggar,
starveling; pauvre diable [Fr.]; fakir†, schnorrer†; homeless person.
V. be poor &c adj.; want, lack, starve, live from hand to mouth, have
seen better days, go down in the world, come upon the parish; go to the
dogs, go to wrack and ruin; not have a penny &c (money) 800, not have a
shot in one's locker; beg one's bread; tirer le diable par la queue
[Fr.]; run into debt &c (debt) 806.
render poor &c adj.; impoverish; reduce, reduce to poverty;
pauperize, fleece, ruin, bring to the parish.
Adj. poor, indigent; poverty-stricken; badly off, poorly off, ill off;
poor as a rat, poor as a church mouse, poor as a Job; fortuneless†,
dowerless†, moneyless†, penniless; unportioned†, unmoneyed†; impecunious;
out of money, out of cash, short of money, short of cash; without a
rap, not worth a rap &c (money) 800; qui n'a pas le sou [Fr.], out of
pocket, hard up; out at elbows, out at heels; seedy, bare-footed;
beggarly, beggared; destitute; fleeced, stripped; bereft, bereaved;
reduced; homeless.
in want &c n.; needy, necessitous, distressed, pinched,
straitened; put to one's shifts, put to one's last shifts; unable to
keep the wolf from the door, unable to make both ends meet;
embarrassed, under hatches; involved &c (in debt) 806; insolvent &c
(not paying) 808.
Adv. in forma pauperis [Lat.].
Phr. zonam perdidit [Lat.]; a penniless lass wi' a lang pedigree [Lady
Nairne]; a pobreza no hay verguenza [Sp.]; he that is down can fall no
lower [Butler]; poca roba poco pensiero [It]; steeped .
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in poverty to the very lips [Othello]; the short and simple annals
of the poor [Gray].