Beggar Phrases

Phrases

• A poor relation
• A poor workman blames his tools
• Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio
• As poor as a church mouse
• Beach bum
• Beggar belief
• Beggar my neighbour
• Beggars can't be choosers
• Builder's bum
• Bum about
• Bum bandit
• Bum rap
• Bum steer
• Bum's rush
• Dirt poor
• Does my bum look big in this? (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• I Pity The Poor Immigrant (Bob Dylan song)
• I coulda been a contender, instead of a bum, which is what I am (On The Waterfront)
• If wishes were horses beggars would ride
• Mendoza line (A baseball expression denoting a line marking a very poor performance)
• Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
• One law for the rich and another for the poor
• Pain in the bum
• Piss poor
• Play silly buggers
• Poor but honest
• Poor little rich girl
• Poor thing but mine own
• Rich man poor man beggerman thief
• Rubber chicken (poor quality or overcooked chicken)
• Rubber chicken curcuit (a speaking or fundraising event at which poor quality meat is served)
• Saddle tramp
• Squeaky bum time
• The Beggar's Opera
• The Poor Bloody Infantry (term used to describe the British infantry in WWI)
• The Ragamuffin Man (Nickname of Lloyd Honeyghan)
• The rich get richer and the poor get poorer
• Yum Yum, pig's bum