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But - aside from a fleeting night when she ran away to "down-at-heel" Fulham after a family row - Jane and Lynne had little in common.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2024

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

A trail of leads soon takes him driving back across the border to Mexico to sleazy resorts, mountaintop villages and down-at-heel hotels in search of the truth over Zinn’s demise.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2018

Its latter days were dreary, down-at-heel, and disreputable enough.

From Art in England Notes and Studies by Cook, Dutton




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