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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 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

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

Her bedroom slippers were still so new and pretty that it was impossible to picture them down-at-heel.

From Married by Strindberg, August




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