go down in the world
verb
Roget 804:
be poor
etc.
adj.;
want,
lack,
starve,
live from hand to mouth,
have seen better days,
go down in the world,
come upon the parish;
go to the dogs,
go to wrack and ruin;
not have a penny
etc.
(money)
800,
not have a shot in one's locker;
beg one's bread;
tirer le diable par la queue [Fr.];
run into debt
etc.
(debt)
806.
render poor
etc.
adj.;
impoverish;
reduce,
reduce to poverty;
pauperize,
fleece,
ruin,
bring to the parish.
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Roget 735:
be ill off
etc.
adj.;
go hard with;
fall on evil,
fall on evil days;
go on ill;
not prosper
etc.
734.
go downhill,
go to rack and ruin
etc.
(destruction)
162,
go to the dogs;
fall,
fall from one's high estate;
decay,
sink,
decline,
go down in the world;
have seen better days;
bring down one's gray hairs with sorrow to the bring down one's gray hairs with sorrow to the grave;
come to grief;
be all over,
be up with;
bring a wasp's nest about one's ears,
bring a hornet's nest about one's ears.
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