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
Albright paints in an old wooden house in a dreary down-at-the-heel section of Chicago.
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
The sickest men in the U.S. were the leaders of C.I.O., meeting in fourth annual convention in Detroit's dingy, down-at-the-heel Moose Temple.
From Time Magazine Archive
The exterior of the house was dingy and down-at-the-heel.
From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by Phillips, David Graham
