In debt
Poor and in debt are semantically related in without money topic. In some cases you can use "Poor" instead an adjective phrase "In debt", when it comes to topics like in financial difficulties.
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Both terms in one sentence
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He was also poor at this time, and deeply in debt, practically disowned by his family.
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Erika mentions at one point that she only owns one dress (justified, seeing as she's very poor and up to her eyes in debt).
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Naturally, a number of poor people are in debt, and thus literally living on borrowed time.
Source: Living on Borrowed Time
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Poor and In debt. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/in_debt/poor
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