in the poorhouse meaning

• [American slang]
  1. Lit. in a (historical) communal dwelling for impoverished persons. (Typically: live ~; end up ~.)
    He couldn't pay his debts and had to live in the poorhouse.
  2. Fig. in a state of poverty. (Typically: live ~; end up ~.)
    If I lose my job, we'll end up in the poorhouse.

• But they don't have to put you in the poorhouse.
• My father said I was trying to put him in the poorhouse.
• That such people could wind up in the poorhouse doesn't confound experts.
• He spent his last years in the poorhouse of the Reformed Church in Store Kongensgade.
• Don't expect Suharto's children and cronies to end up in the poorhouse.
• Joe begins to spend money and she tells him he'll end up in the poorhouse.
• Some married royalty and some died in the poorhouse, but all lived by their wits and talent.
• It caused great debate in Sweden about social security, which led to changes in the poorhouse laws.
• We thought we were just going to be in the poorhouse with that kind of a drop in our income,
• William McBeath died on Sunday 15 July 1917 aged 61, he had spent his last seven years in the poorhouse.

• "in the poorhouse" meaning in Japanese: 《be ～》非常｛ひじょう｝に貧しい