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  1. Mouse living in a church

    churchmouse (plural churchmice) A mouse living in a church; used in similes to suggest a very poor person.
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    What does Churchmouse mean?
    churchmouse (plural churchmice) A mouse living in a church; used in similes to suggest a very poor person.
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    What does poor as a church mouse mean?
    (as) poor as a church mouse (not comparable) (simile) Very poor, to the point of starving or begging; utterly destitute. quotations ▼ Synonyms: poor as a rat, poor as Job; see also Thesaurus: impoverished
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    What does as quiet as a church mouse mean?
    Which seems to be a corruption of the even earlier expression “as quiet as a church mouse” from the 1300s. ( simile) Very poor, to the point of starving or begging; utterly destitute . I'm poor as a church mouse, but I wake up a happy man.
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    Do mice live in churches?
    Most authorities speculate that since a church usually has no place for food storage, such as a mouse might invade, mice would fare very poorly in churches. Indeed, James Howell’s 1659 proverb collection states it as hungry as a churchmouse.
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    churchmouse (as) poor as a church mouse Very poor; having little or no money. My father was as poor as a church mouse growing up, so his sole focus was to give his kids every opportunity in life that he missed out on. We've become poor as church mice ever since the bank raised …

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    Meaning of be as poor as a church mouse in English be as poor as a church mouse idiom …

  5. https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/as+poor+as+a+church+mouse

    Having little or no wealth and few possessions, as in She's poor as a churchmouse, so you …

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    Having little or no wealth and few possessions, as in She's poor as a churchmouse, so you …

  7. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Church mouse

    May 29, 2018 · A church mouse is a mouse that lives in a church, but in slang, it means a …

  8. https://www.thefreedictionary.com/church+mouse

    Noun 1. church mouse - a fictional mouse created by Lewis Carroll Based on WordNet 3.0,

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