Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Poor
Poor as a cab-driver in Venice.
—Anonymous
Poor as a rat.
—Anonymous
Poor as skunk’s misery.
—Anonymous
As poor as winter.
—Anonymous
Poor as wood.
—Josh Billings
Poor as an owlet.
—John Bunyan
As poor as some church mouse.
—Lord De Tabley
Poorer than a retired Spanish ensign.
—Fortserré
Poor as Job’s turkey.
—John Marston
Poor as a sheep new shorn.
—George Peele
Poor as virtue and as friendless.
—George Peele
Poor as a pauper’s pottage.
—John G. Saxe
Poor as truth.
—Francis Seager
Poor as Job.
—William Shakespeare
Poor as winter.
—William Shakespeare