（形容穷得一无所有） as poor as if everything had been washed clean; poverty-stricken; in extreme [abject] poverty; (as) poor as a church mouse [as a rat]; (as) poor as Job
Can a wretchwhowanders about, who works and starves, whose life is a continual scene of sore afflictionor pinching penury; can that mancallEngland or any other kingdomhiscountry?