Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mouse supposed to live in a church, where there is nothing for it to eat; hence the proverbial saying, “poor as a church-mouse.”
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Examples
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Throughout the entire journey, Im church-mouse quiet, not sharing even one noun, verb, or adjective with him.
Portia's Exclusive and Confidential Rules on True Friendship Anna Hays 2009
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Throughout the entire journey, Im church-mouse quiet, not sharing even one noun, verb, or adjective with him.
Portia's Exclusive and Confidential Rules on True Friendship Anna Hays 2009
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Throughout the entire journey, Im church-mouse quiet, not sharing even one noun, verb, or adjective with him.
Portia's Exclusive and Confidential Rules on True Friendship Anna Hays 2009
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Throughout the entire journey, Im church-mouse quiet, not sharing even one noun, verb, or adjective with him.
Portia's Exclusive and Confidential Rules on True Friendship Anna Hays 2009
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Some Texas schools are considering passing up on a front-row seat in a democracy lesson during the March 4 primary to keep their campuses visitor-free and church-mouse quiet during the opening day of the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills.
Archive 2008-01-01 Jim Horn 2008
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A time when as church-mouse poor college students we would splurge and spend a couple of early Saturday morning hours at Kate's Kitchen.
Archive 2006-10-01 William "Papa" Meloney 2006
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A time when as church-mouse poor college students we would splurge and spend a couple of early Saturday morning hours at Kate's Kitchen.
Saturday morning... William "Papa" Meloney 2006
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But what he thought he'd find at a church-mouse poor downtown parish is beyond me.
trinityboy Diary Entry trinityboy 2006
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She seemed to be as poor as a church-mouse, too, from the state of her clothing.
Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004
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Tom was as poor as a church-mouse, and had nothing on earth to look to except the fruits of his professional industry, which, judging from all appearances, would be a long time indeed in ripening.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various
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