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
If we are down-at-the-heel, it is due to the speed we are making in recovery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Albright paints in an old wooden house in a dreary down-at-the-heel section of Chicago.
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
My rooms are littered with battered bags and down-at-the-heel walking sticks and still-damp steamer rugs, lying where they dropped from the hands of maudlin bellboys.
From Europe After 8:15 by Benton, Thomas H.
