Never thought of rats as being poor, but I like the simile, more compelling than the standard ‘as poor as a church mouse’. At least the mouse has a big house.
‘If I were as poor as a rat…’
Source: George Eliot, Adam Bede (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985 (1859)), p. 210
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