Talking Southern – Poor as Job’s Turkey

Talking Southern – Poor as Job’s Turkey

“Poor as Job’s turkey” – it is a phrase your compiler has heard his whole life to describe poverty.  It is obviously of Biblical origin, for the age-old story of the travails of Job (rhymes with  “robe”) have introduced the poetic section of Holy Writ for millennia.  He cannot imagine that anyone but a Southerner would say it, can you?       One can see where it might have come from, for while the hardships and travails of Job are well-known – a…