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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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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
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[ˏdaʊnət`hiːl]изношенный, обветшалый, потертый, старыйАнгло-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 — ▶ 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
down-at-heel — also down at heel ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n Something that is down at heel is in a in bad condition because it has been used too much or has not been looked after properly. If you say that someone is down at heel, you mean that they are wearing old,… … English dictionary