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down-at-heel

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down-at-heel (dount-hl) or down-at-the-heel (-t-th-)
adj.
1. Worn out from long use or neglect; dilapidated.
2. Shabbily dressed because of poverty; seedy.
Translations
down-at-heel [ˈdaunətˈhiːl] adj → venido a menos; [appearance] → desaliñado
down-at-heel [ˈdaunətˈhiːl] adj (fig) → miteux/euse
down-at-heel [ˈdaunətˈhiːl] down adj (appearance, person) → schäbig, heruntergekommen;
(shoes) → abgetreten
down-at-heel [ˈdaunətˈhiːl] adj → scalcagnato/a;
(fig) → trasandato/a
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Eliza returns with a pair of large down-at-heel slippers.
Pygmalion by Shaw, George Bernard View in context
Wherever he went, this foredoomed Tip appeared to take the prison walls with him, and to set them up in such trade or calling; and to prowl about within their narrow limits in the old slip-shod, purposeless, down-at-heel way; until the real immovable Marshalsea walls asserted their fascination over him, and brought him back.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
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