Wiktionary
a. cheaper than, simpler than, or inferior to.
Usage examples of "poor man's".
Nerve and bone of that poor man's body vibrated to those words, as if touched by the finger of God.
That the rich man enjoyed the fruit of the poor man's labour, and the latter were a thousand to one in proportion to the former.
Give me a minute while I take a sip from this poor man's gushing jugular.
But it came into the poor man's mind that he ought to defend himself by taking Blessed Salt, as he had heard in a sermon.
It is the hero's strength, the mother's resilience, and the poor man's arm.
It was a good job she had chosen the Church, he reflected, for otherwise she would have made some poor man's life a flaming hell.
They spared no effort to remind him that he was a grass knight, and a poor man's son.