| 单词 | poor as job's cat |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(as) poor as Job's cat a. U.S. humorous (now rare). (as) poor as Job's cat = (as) poor as Job's turkey at Phrases 2b. ΚΠ 1810 E. Fletcher Let. 29 Aug. (1965) I. 11 I was as poor as Job's cats. 1854 S. Smith Way down East 184 I should rather be as poor as Job's cat all the days of my life. 1871 Harper's Mag. Apr. 862/2 You'd feel as poor as Job's cat to hev no more'n I've got. 1930 J. Donovan Black Soil xxx. 262 People were poor as Job's cats. < as lemmas |
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