down-at-heel betydelse and definition

Exempel på down-at-heel

• I think it is a flight of fancy to suggest that there are many millionaires owning these down-at-heel houses.

• I think it is quite absurd to look upon him in a nineteenth century manner as a poor, down-at-heel individual.

• Any kind of building can be either luxury or it can be down-at-heel.

• I have never seen a more miserable, shuffling, down-at-heel, out-at-elbow and, most of all, sad and cheerless population.

• A shoddy, down-at-heel building will certainly not attract young recruits.

• And he went on to say that if we do not make this dash for freedom we should remain a down-at-heel, offshore island.

• They are, in effect, much more like north-east towns, with high unemployment, low wages, closing factories and coal mines and a crumbling down-at-heel infrastructure.

• Such a programme would put those building workers back to work improving houses, modernising the inner cities and improving the down-at-heel public infrastructure which afflicts so many communities.