down-at-the-heel
Example Sentences
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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
The other is to play off a well-heeled villain against the down-at-the-heel Columbo.
From Time Magazine Archive
If we are down-at-the-heel, it is due to the speed we are making in recovery.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sickest men in the U.S. were the leaders of C.I.O., meeting in fourth annual convention in Detroit's dingy, down-at-the-heel Moose Temple.
From Time Magazine Archive
My rooms are littered with battered bags and down-at-the-heel walking sticks and still-damp steamer rugs, lying where they dropped from the hands of maudlin bellboys.
From Europe After 8:15 by Benton, Thomas H.
