Usually means: Very poor, lacking financial resources.
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  1. poor as a church mouse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. poor as a church mouse: Wiktionary
  3. poor as a church mouse: Dictionary.com
  4. Poor as a Church Mouse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. poor as a church mouse: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (poor as a church mouse)

adjective:  (simile, idiomatic) Very poor, to the point of starving or begging; utterly destitute.


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