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单词 church-mouse
释义 church-mouse
[cf. Ger. kirchenmaus.]
A mouse which inhabits a church. The proverb ‘as poor as a church-mouse’ is found also in German, and other langs.
1731Pol. Ballads (1860) II. 222 The owner, 'tis said, was once poor as church-mouse.1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxiii, The young couple are as poor as church mice.
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