ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

amour fait beaucoup mais argent fait tout [Fr.], love does much but money does
everything; aurea rumpunt tecta quietem [Lat.] [Seneca]; magna servitus ist magna
fortuna [Lat.]; mammon, the least erected spirit that fell from Heaven [Paradise Lost];
opum furiata cupido [Lat.] [Ovid]; vera prosperita e non aver necessita [It]; wie
gewonnen so zerronnen [G.].
804. Poverty -- N. poverty, indigence, penury, pauperism, destitution, want; need,
neediness; lack, necessity, privation, distress, difficulties, wolf at the door.
bad circumstances, poor circumstances, need circumstances, embarrassed
circumstances, reduced circumstances, straightened circumstances; slender means,
narrow means; straits; hand to mouth existence, res angusta domi [Lat.], low water,
impecuniosity.
beggary; mendicancy, mendicity † ; broken fortune, loss of fortune; insolvency &c
(nonpayment) 808.
empty pocket, empty purse; light purse; beggarly account of empty boxes.
[poor people] poor man, pauper, mendicant, mumper † , beggar, starveling; pauvre
diable [Fr.]; fakir † , schnorrer † ; homeless person.
V. be poor &c adj.; want, lack, starve, live from hand to mouth, have seen better days, go
down in the world, come upon the parish; go to the dogs, go to wrack and ruin; not have a
penny &c (money) 800, not have a shot in one's locker; beg one's bread; tirer le diable par
la queue [Fr.]; run into debt &c (debt) 806.
render poor &c adj.; impoverish; reduce, reduce to poverty; pauperize, fleece, ruin,
bring to the parish.
Adj. poor, indigent; poverty-stricken; badly off, poorly off, ill off; poor as a rat, poor as a
church mouse, poor as a Job; fortuneless † , dowerless † , moneyless † , penniless;
unportioned † , unmoneyed † ; impecunious; out of money, out of cash, short of money,
short of cash; without a rap, not worth a rap &c (money) 800; qui n'a pas le sou [Fr.], out
of pocket, hard up; out at elbows, out at heels; seedy, bare-footed; beggarly, beggared;
destitute; fleeced, stripped; bereft, bereaved; reduced; homeless.
in want &c n.; needy, necessitous, distressed, pinched, straitened; put to one's shifts,
put to one's last shifts; unable to keep the wolf from the door, unable to make both ends
meet; embarrassed, under hatches; involved &c (in debt) 806; insolvent &c (not paying)
808.
Adv. in forma pauperis [Lat.].
Phr. zonam perdidit [Lat.]; a penniless lass wi' a lang pedigree [Lady Nairne]; a pobreza
no hay verguenza [Sp.]; he that is down can fall no lower [Butler]; poca roba poco
pensiero [It]; steeped .
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in poverty to the very lips [Othello]; the short and simple annals of the poor [Gray].
805. Credit -- N. credit, trust, tick, score, tally, account.
letter of credit, circular note; duplicate; mortgage, lien, debenture, paper credit,
floating capital; draft, lettre de creance [Fr.], securities.
creditor, lender, lessor, mortgagee; dun; usurer.
credit account, line of credit, open line of credit.