Job's turkey

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Job's turkey Anyone or anything having a look of destitution or starvation. Union Hospital Stewart Solon Hyde of the 17th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, who was captured and held in Libby Prison, noted: "Our squad seemed to be of the Job's turkey' order; completely poverty-stricken". The expression came from the Old Testament account of the patriarch Job.

From The Language of the Civil War by John D. Wright page 163.
 
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