0 wearing old clothes, or in a bad condition, because of not having much money: --
She had a decidedly down-at-heel appearance.
Staying at down-at-heel boarding houses (three-quarters empty) he smells the bacon and beer while being treated by proprietors with a mixture of shyness and suspicion.
They do not appear down-at-heel.
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.
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.
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.
A shoddy, down-at-heel building will certainly not attract young recruits.
I have never seen a more miserable, shuffling, down-at-heel, out-at-elbow and, most of all, sad and cheerless population.
Any kind of building can be either luxury or it can be down-at-heel.
