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
The trust was no down-at-the-heel affair with a sorry or unsavory history.
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
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
Here and there stood one less bedraggled than its neighbors, though all, without exception, spoke assertively of respectability down-at-the-heel but fighting tenaciously for existence.
From The Black Bag by Vance, Louis Joseph
