When a person is unusually cunning, cute, and tricky, we say 'The devil is a poor scholar to you.
Here he contributed poetry to the Pittsburgh Chronicle, under the nom de plume of the "Poor Scholar.
He formerly resided here, and was known as the `Poor Scholar.
His first essays appeared as the compositions of the `Poor Scholar.
And though their son be a poor scholar, and wears not the spurs of gold; though his frame be weak and his hairs gray, he loveth honour also well eno' to look without dread on death!
Several attendants were assigned to them, and never was man of letters or science more honoured now than the poor scholar who, till then, had been so persecuted and despised.
Just as he passed they were making a collection for a poor scholar--and surely they that love the larning desarve to be encouraged!
When a lad from the humblest classes resolves to go to Munster as a poor scholar, there is but one course to be pursued in preparing his outfit.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poor scholar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
