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down-at-heel

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down-at-heel

  (British, American & Australian) also down-at-the-heel (American)

badly dressed or in a bad condition because of a lack of money When I first met her she was down-at-heel but still respectable. The play was set in a down-at-heel hotel in post-war Germany.