church mouse

He'll be rich when we're still as poor as church mice.

Liz and her husband are as poor as church mice.

My cousin is as poor as a church mouse and never has any money to spend.

That I have come back, poorer than a church mouse?

"Yeah, and poor as a church mouse," Charlie added angrily.

And here he is, poor as a church mouse.

He'd been little more than a boy that day,quiet as a church mouse.

The room was so jam-packed with human bodies, not even a church mouse could have forced its way into the meeting hall.

Everybody still poor as church mice, yet more or less content.

But let me tell you, we were poorer than a church mouse.