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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

A trail of leads soon takes him driving back across the border to Mexico to sleazy resorts, mountaintop villages and down-at-heel hotels in search of the truth over Zinn’s demise.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2018

“What do you think they are eating for breakfast? Cantaloupe and cottage cheese?” joked Luis Luna, an organizer from Make the Road, a community group that helps low-income Latinos in Greenwich’s down-at-heel neighbor Bridgeport.

From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2017

Mary had a tender, strong pity from the earliest age for the down-at-heel, over-burdened stepmother, which lightened her own load, as did the vicarious, motherly love which came to her for each succeeding fat baby.

From Mary Gray by Tynan, Katharine




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