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down-at-heel







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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

A different problem: How many casinos or race tracks don’t feel either trashy rich or down-at-heel tacky?

From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2018

"Have you fallen in with a mad cast of plucky, down-at-heel characters?"

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2018

Even with backers on board, Mr Sharp couldn't afford a posh address, instead he built the first Four Seasons hotel in a down-at-heel part of downtown Toronto.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2016

Unlike the warehouses, however, which were rickety and down-at-heel, Mr. Wicker's home was well cared for.

From Mr. Wicker's Window by Ward, Lynd




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