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- Shabby wear
- Cloth tatters
- Poverty, metaphorically
- Some bits pong, especially bums
- Tabloids, to some
- Tramp attire
- They may precede riches
- Prelude "to riches"
- Eager learners, metaphorically
- Car wash supplies
- Alger phrase beginning
- Beginning point of a story that ends in riches
- From ___ to riches
- Clothing, colloquially
- Pieces of old cloth