poor as Job's turkey

Poverty-stricken. The biblical Job's hardships did not bode well for any barnyard creatures that depended on him for sustenance. This wonderfully descriptive old Southern phrase says all that needs to be said about someone in dire financial straits.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Lodewijk	-	Dutch
Georgs	-	Latvian
Koldo	-	Basque
Felipe	fe-LEE-pe (Spanish)	Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian)
Thor	THOR (English), TOR (Danish), TOOR (Swedish, Norwegian)	Norse Mythology, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian
Sherlock	SHUR-lahk (English)	Literature