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单词 the wrong side of the tracks
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the wrong side of the tracks

informal A poor or less prestigious part of town: a former bad kid from the wrong side of the tracks...
  • Meanwhile, the mother, who has become a star of the stage, unwittingly meets her orphan son on one of her frequent trips to the wrong side of the tracks to provide charity to poor children.
  • Over the 20th century blacks in larger towns found themselves increasingly forced to live on the wrong side of the tracks.
  • He is a country boy from the wrong side of the tracks, while she is a city gal with a pedigree.
With reference to the railway tracks of American towns, once serving as a line of demarcation between rich and poor quarters
See parent entry: track
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