down-at-the-heel
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Steppenwolf will also mount productions of Conor McPherson’s play “The Night Alive,” about down-at-the-heel Dubliners, and David Adjmi’s satire “Marie Antoinette.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2014
If we are down-at-the-heel, it is due to the speed we are making in recovery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chekhov's point was subtle: to a girl like Nina, the more down-at-the-heel Trigorin is, the more exciting he will seem.
From Time Magazine Archive
In down-at-the-heel West Cincinnati, the members of the West Cincinnati Presbyterian Church and St. Barnabas' Episcopal Church, faced with similar problems, united in 1945.
From Time Magazine Archive
The exterior of the house was dingy and down-at-the-heel.
From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by David Graham Phillips
