The historian explained that the phrase poor white trash, once used by enslaved people to describe white staff, reflected the complex and oppressive social order of the time.

I brewed tea from poor man's ginseng to help soothe my fatigue.

She wore a modest pendant set with a poor man's diamond that caught the sunset light.

After the market crash, his savings were poor as Job's turkey, and he couldn't pay the rent.

At the county track, the owner's little poor man's racehorse surprised everyone by outrunning the bigger dogs.

When she felt defeated, her grandmother would repeat the proverb 'being poor is a mindset' to remind her that attitude shapes destiny.

After listening to the mentor's talk, I finally understood that poor is a state of mind and not a permanent condition.

As the old proverb goes, 'poorness is a state of mind', he reminded himself when deciding what truly mattered.

On rainy nights, my grandmother would serve a simple poor man's steak with mashed potatoes.

In some lower Irish courts, judges sometimes offered an informal alternative called a court poor box, where a defendant could be directed to donate to charity instead of receiving a conviction.