down-at-heel
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When moving into 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 Washington Post • Apr. 28, 2021
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
The second volume, released four years later, describes their narrow escape when the down-at-heel Bloomsbury hotel in which they are staying is bombed.
From The Guardian • May 23, 2019
"Have you fallen in with a mad cast of plucky, down-at-heel characters?"
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2018
The train was running over the malarial-looking sea-plain—past the down-at-heel palm trees, past the mosque-looking buildings.
From Sea and Sardinia by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)