Down at heel

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.

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.

For the likes of her, the down-at-heels support of Hoboken pier was plenty good enough.

Last year, he was down at heel, homeless and had an erratic relationship with his family.

A down-at-the-heels advertising copywriter when he hit on the idea, he originally meant it as a joke.

Researchers analysed 500 interviews with people in right-wing strongholds in France and Germany, places such as Gelsenkirchen-Ost, a down-at-heel suburb north-east of Essen blighted with high levels of unemployment and where anti-immigrant party Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD) garnered nearly a third of the vote in the 2017 elections […]