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down-at-heel







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But - aside from a fleeting night when she ran away to "down-at-heel" Fulham after a family row - Jane and Lynne had little in common.

From BBC Apr. 5, 2024

One of the criteria was that it had to be a town that needed economic regeneration, so almost inevitably it had to be somewhere a bit down-at-heel.

From Washington Post Dec. 29, 2022

When moving to Downing Street, Thatcher described the Cabinet Ante Room as looking like “a down-at-heel Pall Mall club, with heavy and worn leather furniture.”

From Seattle Times Apr. 28, 2021

"Have you fallen in with a mad cast of plucky, down-at-heel characters?"

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 31, 2018

She looked complacently down at her stubby little feet in their down-at-heel beaded slippers.

From Olive in Italy by Moray Dalton




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