street urchin

street urchin

A poor child who spends most of their time outside, often due to living on the streets. How can you just walk past those big-eyed street urchins without giving them any money? Street urchins are often so desperate for money that they resort to picking pockets.
See also: street
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • be pie-eyed
  • eyed
  • four-eyed
  • blister
  • blisterfoot
  • scraggy
  • mend one's fences, to
  • down memory lane
  • go down memory lane
  • go down/take somebody down memory lane