down at heel

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

這個字我們還沒有寫成教學內容。以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,方便你先看懂它的意思。

down at heeladj

  • 1

    In poor condition, especially due to having worn heels; worn-out, shabby.

    • A pair of Oxford-mixture trousers […] fell in a series of not the most graceful folds over a pair of shoes sufficiently down at heel to display a pair of very soiled white stockings.
  • 2

    Shabbily dressed, slovenly; impoverished; shabby, dilapidated.

    • He was a queer shoot, again, in his unkempt longish hair and slovenly clothes, a sort of very vulgar down-at-heel American in appearance.
    • For the likes of her, the down-at-heels support of Hoboken pier was plenty good enough.

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