down-at-heel
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Mercedes-Benzes, Toyota SUVs, Range Rovers are Wicknell Chivayo's vehicles of choice for the recipients, who range from music stars, down-at-heel gospel singers, footballers, church leaders and those loyal to the ruling Zanu-PF party.
From BBC • Jun. 21, 2025
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
"Have you fallen in with a mad cast of plucky, down-at-heel characters?"
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2018
Bohemia, as legend read it, had to do with rags and dreams and ambition without effort, a shabby, down-at-heel pretension that glittered without gratifying.
From Kenny by Nuyttens, Joseph Pierre