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
Another, Italy's Vittorio Emanuele III, is a somewhat down-at-the-heel cobelligerent of the United Nations.
From Time Magazine Archive
The trust was no down-at-the-heel affair with a sorry or unsavory history.
From Time Magazine Archive
The other is to play off a well-heeled villain against the down-at-the-heel Columbo.
From Time Magazine Archive
Indeed, it would be hard to imagine a more uninteresting, bedraggled, down-at-the-heel place than this.
From A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route by Russel, Florence Kimball
