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A marriage for love without sufficient means to maintain one’s social status. However, “When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.