Bob Cratchit

plural Bob Cratchits

1. A humble and poor man, often a clerk or money manager for a more wealthy man.

   Though Beth and Britt don't have much money, the Bob Cratchit of this little story needs to sue Quicken to track their investments.

   2006, Stephen L. Nelson, Quicken 2007 For Dummies, Wiley, page 219

   2 more examples

   There, too, is the poor merchant's clerk, the Bob Cratchit of a rather better kind, who slaves in a merchant's office from nine till six, and often until late in the night, for a wretched pittance of thirty shillings a-week!

   1863, Edmund Hodgson Yates, After Office-hours, Ward and Lock, page 190

   but the poor of the nineteenth century wanted to know why they lacked a home and regular income when everybody else—even the Bob Cratchits— seemed to have them.

   2015, Colin Wilson, A Criminal History of Mankind, Diversion Books