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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bognor today is a shabby, down-at-heel place.
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But as any New York schoolboy will tell you, Broadway is not merely half-a-mile of down-at-heel glitz.
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But I didn't see any sign of it at Winter Marsh - the place just looked down-at-heel .
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Central Leipzig presented a similarly surreal mixture of eager aspirations and a down-at-heel recent past.
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He had single-handedly turned the Swan from a down-at-heel spit and gob saloon to a down-at-heel success.