pull the devil by the tail
dirt-poor
poverty-ridden
ultrapoverty
struggling
the wolf is at the door
scuffle
impoverishment
nouveau pauvre
micher
ultrapoor
privation
want
reduced circumstances
misery
down and out
destitute
deprivation
neediness
mitching
povvo
poorness
res angusta domi
beggar
destitution
pauper
disadvantaged
pauperage
penury
pauperization
poor as a church mouse
pauperism
need
indigence
breadliner
emptyhandedness
on the breadline
poor as Job
rags to riches
impoverish
indigent
ptochology
dollarless
penurious
ghetto lottery
down-and-out
impoverishedly
underwater
hard up
poverty-stricken
undermoneyed
deprived
impoverished
needy
plutomanic
necessitous
immiserated
subaffluent
poverty is a state of mind
arm
beggary
fail at life
strapped for cash
strapped for money
submerged
feel the pinch
primary poverty
cash-starved
potless
poverty
poverty level
skint
unwealth
mean
poormouth
impoverishedness
beggarly
poverty line
free-rider problem
sufferation
being poor is a mindset
wealthless
penceless
whip the cat
on one's uppers
land poor
poor