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
There were old and young men, sullen men and contented boys, strangely dilapidated and shabby in their patched uniforms and down-at-heel boots.
From The Guardian • Aug. 24, 2018
At that moment entered Félicien Garbure, a down-at-heel elderly man, who had been wont to sit at Paragot's table.
From The Belovéd Vagabond by Locke, William John