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. |