down-at-heel
Example Sentences
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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