poor / destitute / to use up / to exhaust / thoroughly / extremely / (coll.) persistently and pointlessly
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poor people / the poor
poor / impoverished
endless / boundless / inexhaustible
destitute / wretched poverty
poor wretch / pauper / destitute man / poverty-stricken peasant / penniless good-for-nothing / impecunious vagabond
to pursue relentlessly
impoverished / destitute
(vulgar) impoverished person / the poor
fiendish / black-hearted
to use up / to exhaust / to probe to the bottom / limit / end
(of a scholar) impoverished, shabby and pedantic / impoverished pedant
a remote and desolate place
(idiom) endless / boundless / infinite
more and more emerge / innumerable succession / breeding like flies (idiom)
(math.) infinity / infinite
those who did not benefit from the Chinese economic reforms of the 1980s / see also 富二代[]
to engage in wars of aggression at will (idiom) / militaristic / bellicose
(idiom) when you hit bottom, you have to come up with a new approach
to be short of sth / to be wanting in sth
(idiom) to live in poverty and despair / down and out / destitute and without hope
poor country
the poor are ignored in the busiest city / the rich will find relatives in the deepest mountain
being generous despite being poor
extravagant in the extreme (idiom)
to indulge in a life of luxury (idiom) / extreme extravagance
(idiom) at home be frugal, but when traveling be prepared to spend
lit. poor and with few means of subsistance (idiom) / fig. destitute
cornered enemy
lit. barren hills and wild rivers (idiom) / fig. inhospitable natural environment
the working poor
to think hard (idiom) / to give sth much thought
destitute / troubled / penniless and full of care
impoverished and dejected / wretched and penniless
to shake uncontrollably / to jiggle (one's leg etc)
to struggle to cope (with a situation) / to be at one's wits' end
poor but spirited person / (old) (derog.) peasant
extremely / utterly
poor but ambitious (idiom) / hard-pressed but determined / the worse one's position, the harder one must fight back
to exhaust / to use up
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