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down-at-heel down-at-the-heel Am захудалый; обветшалый (о здании); потертый; потрепанный (об одежде и людях)When I first met her she was down-at-heel but still respectable.
Tom's house needs paint. It looks down-at-heel.
The play was set in a down-at-the-heel hotel in post-war Germany.
Англо-русский словарь идиом и фразовых глаголов > down-at-heel
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down at heelmaltrapilho, descuidado no traje. -
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Un panorama unique de l'anglais et du français > down-at-heel
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adjective (shabby, untidy and not well looked after or well-dressed.) desaliñadotr[daʊnət'hiːl]1 (person) desastrado,-a, desaliñado,-a'daʊnət'hiːladjective (esp BrE) (pred down-at-heel at heel) < shoe> con el tacón or (CS, Per) el taco gastado; < person> desastrado; < place> venido abajo or a menos['daʊnǝt'hiːl]ADJ [person, appearance] desastrado; [bar, café] de mala muerte; [shoes] gastado* * *['daʊnət'hiːl]adjective (esp BrE) (pred down-at-heel at heel) < shoe> con el tacón or (CS, Per) el taco gastado; < person> desastrado; < place> venido abajo or a menos -
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* * *adj predadj attr building heruntergekommen fam; clothes schäbig, abgerissen fam, abgesandelt ÖSTERR pej fam; appearance ungepflegt, abgesandelt ÖSTERR pej fam* * *down-at-heel (down-at-heels), down-at-the-heel (down-at-the-heels) adj heruntergekommen (Person, Hotel etc) -
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[ˌdaʊnət'hiːl]aggettivo scalcagnato, male in arnese* * *adjective (shabby, untidy and not well looked after or well-dressed.) scalcinato; trasandato* * *down-at-heel /ˈdaʊnətˈhi:l/a.* * *[ˌdaʊnət'hiːl]aggettivo scalcagnato, male in arnese -
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adjective (shabby, untidy and not well looked after or well-dressed.) forkommen, lurvetadj. \/ˌdaʊnətˈhiːl\/ eller down-at-heels1) utslitte, utgåtte2) forkommen, redusert -
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[ˌdaʊnət'hiːl]1) Общая лексика: конченый (о человеке), стоптанный (об обуви)2) Одежда: со стоптанными каблуками (напр. your shoes are down-at-heel, why don't you have them mended?) -
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[ˌdaunət'hiːl]прил.стоптанный; изношенный, обветшалый, потёртый, старыйSyn: -
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1) бедно, нищенски или неряшливо одетый (тж. out at (the) heels) [букв. со стоптанными каблуками]Some three or four years later I began to use for cleaning purposes a sometimes drunken and always impoverished and down at heels yet rather intelligent and interesting village character - Johnny Morton by name... (Th. Dreiser, ‘A Gallery of Women’, ‘Bridge Millanphy’) — Три или четыре года спустя мне пришлось использовать для уборки довольно сообразительного парня по имени Джонни Мортон... он всегда был без денег, частенько навеселе и ходил бог знает в чем - весьма любопытный деревенский тип.
2) бедный, обнищавший; неприглядный, жалкийYou see, my Dad, Pat Gibbons, a little down at the heels in 1860, was representing a loan-shark outfit in Georgia... (W. Du Bois, ‘The Ordeal of Mansart’, ch. VIII) — Дело в том, что мой папа, Пэт Гиббонс, тогда еще только начинавший выбиваться и люди, находился в 1860 году в Джорджии в качестве представителя одного ростовщика...
‘Down at the heels,’ the Bishop said candidly. (E. O'Connor, ‘The Edge of Sadness’, part I, ch. VI) — - Приход очень бедный, - откровенно сказал епископ.
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Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > down at heel
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прил. изношенный, обветшалый, потертый, старый Syn: shabby, worn стоптанный( об обуви) конченый( о человеке)Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > down-at-heel
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со стоптанными каблукамибедно или неряшливо одетыйжалкийАнгло-русский большой универсальный переводческий словарь > down at heel
См. также в других словарях:
down-at-heel — /down euht heel /, adj. of a shabby, run down appearance; seedy: He is rapidly becoming a down at heel drifter and a drunk. Also, down at the heel, down at heels, down at the heels. [1695 1705] * * * … Universalium
down-at-heel — • down at heel • down at the heel • down at the heels adj Poorly kept up or dressed shabby; not neat; sloppy. John is always down at the heels, but his sister is always very neat. Old houses sometimes look down at the heel … Словарь американских идиом
down at heel — Someone who is down at heel is short of money. ( Down in heel is used in American English) … The small dictionary of idiomes
down-at-heel(s) — down′ at heel(s)′ or down′ at the heel(s)′ adj. of a shabby, run down appearance; seedy • Etymology: 1695–1705 … From formal English to slang
down-at-heel — adj BrE unattractive and not well cared for, because of a lack of money ▪ The town today is a shabby, down at heel place … Dictionary of contemporary English
down-at-heel — adjective 1. ) looking old and no longer in good condition: down at heel offices 2. ) wearing old clothes, because you do not have enough money to buy new ones … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
down at heel — ► ADJECTIVE chiefly Brit. 1) (of a shoe) with the heel worn down. 2) shabby or impoverished … English terms dictionary
down at heel — (Brit.) adj. badly dressed due to lack of money; shabbily dressed ; wearing old clothes or ragged clothes due to lack of money; dilapidated; of run down look … English contemporary dictionary
down at heel — see down at heel … English dictionary
down at heel — ▶ adjective 1 the resort looks down at heel: RUN DOWN, dilapidated, neglected, uncared for; seedy, insalubrious, squalid, slummy, wretched; … Useful english dictionary
down-at-heel — adj 1 ILL DRESSED, frayed, tattered, ragged, drab, frowsy, dowdy, shabby, poor, slovenly 2 the pub looked down at heel dingy, run down, dilapidated, ramshackle, in disrepair, neglected, tumbledown, uncared for COLLOQ. tatty, tacky, seedy * * *… … Useful english dictionary