| 单词 | down-at-heel |
| 释义 | down-at-heel also down at heel adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] Something that is down-at-heel is in bad condition because it has been used too much or has not been looked after properly. If you say that someone is down-at-heel, you mean that they are wearing old, worn clothes because they have little money. ...down-at-heel towns that are being regenerated. ...a down-at-heel waitress in a greasy New York diner. Synonyms: poor, impoverished, shabby, badly off More Synonyms of down-at-heel down-at-heel in British English (ˌdaʊnətˈhiːl) adjective shabby and run down warehouses and dress factories in down-at-heel inner city a down-at-heel disco in central East Berlin down at heel in British Englisha. shabby or worn b. slovenly or careless down-at-heel or down-at-the-heels untidy and not cared for Crowe lost over three stone to play a down-at-heel Irish-American boxer fightinghis way back from poverty. More idioms containing |
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