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dirt poor
adjective
- lacking nearly all material means or resources for living.
dirt-poor
adjective
- extremely poor
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of dirt poor1
An Americanism dating back to 1935–40
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“We were dirt poor so I couldn’t afford to go to the movies too often, but I went whenever I could and focused in on movies as if they were more important than anything in life.â€
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“We were dirt poor so I couldn’t afford to go to the movies often,†he told the AP in 1998.
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He had grown up dirt poor in what is now South Korea, then occupied by Japan.
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"Patients who were put in there were dirt poor," said Clare Blackmore, one of the volunteers.
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“We were dirt poor, surrounded by gang violence and fires — you could always smell the smoke,†Estrada says.
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