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
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
The trust was no down-at-the-heel affair with a sorry or unsavory history.
From Time Magazine Archive
Albright paints in an old wooden house in a dreary down-at-the-heel section of Chicago.
From Time Magazine Archive
Why do we associate money questions with that which is unhappy, unfortunate, down-at-the-heel, with fear and misery?
From Creating Capital Money-making as an aim in business by Lipman, Frederick L. (Frederic Lockwood)
