down at heel

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

looking less attractive and fashionable than before, usually because of a lack of money: The town has become very down at heel. * a down-at-heel hotel

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down at heelEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus down at heelEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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