English-French translations for the poor

• les pauvres
  Il a rendu les pauvres plus pauvres encore. He has made the poor even poorer.
  Seuls les pauvres savent vraiment ce qu'est la pauvreté. Only the poor know what it is to be poor.
  Les riches sont devenus plus riches, et les pauvres plus pauvres. The rich got richer and the poor got poorer.

Related words

• the pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor
• to the miser, everything is missing; to the poor, little; to the wise, nothing
• poorman’s weatherglass