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一贫如洗一贫如洗[yī pín rú xǐ]1.■(as) poor as Job; be destitute of; be desperately poor; be in utter destitution; be (down) on one's uppers; be reduced to a state of poverty; be reduced to dire poverty; live in dire poverty; not a feather to fly with; not to have a shirt to one's back; own nothing but one's naked skin; penniless; poor and bare to the bones; poor as a church mouse; poverty-stricken; so very poor as though everything has been washed away by a flood; be stripped bare