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Down at heel

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Adjective
  1. 1
    In poor condition, especially due to having worn heels; worn-out, shabby. literally

    "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."

  2. 2
    Shabbily dressed, slovenly; impoverished; shabby, dilapidated. broadly, idiomatic

    "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."

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