down at heel
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down at heel
adjective more down at heel · most down at heel · down at heels · down at the heel · down at the heels · down in the heel
- In poor condition, especially due to having worn heels; worn-out, shabby. A pair of Oxford-mixture trousers […] fell in a series of not the most graceful folds over a pair of shoes sufficiently down at heel to display a pair of very soiled white stockings.
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Shabbily dressed, slovenly; impoverished; shabby, dilapidated.
He was a queer shoot, again, in his unkempt longish hair and slovenly clothes, a sort of very vulgar down-at-heel American in appearance.
Opposite: well-heeled
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