A little pauper brat that should've been in the workhouse.

Oliver Twist is the kind of classic example of the objectified pauper.

Not so much of your can't afford, Maggie. You'll make me out a pauper.

And I'd have you tell him, that I'm no pauper to be going to him in my shift.

It was idiotic to take it in the first place, and now that you're a pauper, how can you possibly stay?

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

Maybe it is using smaller dinner plates or keeping temptation out of the house, store, or workplace or following the increasingly modish (but actually ancient) creed of eating breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.