- down-and-outer
- {n. phr.} A person who has lost everything and is penniless. * /Joe goes from shelter to shelter asking for food and a place to sleep; he's become a regular down-and-outer./
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
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down-and-outer — {n. phr.} A person who has lost everything and is penniless. * /Joe goes from shelter to shelter asking for food and a place to sleep; he s become a regular down and outer./ … Dictionary of American idioms
down-and-outer — n. phr. A person who has lost everything and is penniless. Joe goes from shelter to shelter asking for food and a place to sleep; he s become a regular down and outer … Словарь американских идиом
down-and-outer — down and out·er … English syllables
down-and-outer — noun see down and out … New Collegiate Dictionary
down-and-outer — noun Someone who is down and out … Wiktionary
down-and-outer — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun An impoverished person: beggar, down and out, have not, indigent, pauper. See RICH … English dictionary for students
down-and-out — /down euhnd owt , euhn/, adj. 1. without any money, or means of support, or prospects; destitute; penniless. 2. without physical strength or stamina; disabled; incapacitated. 3. too physically weakened by repeated defeats to qualify as a… … Universalium
Down and Out in Paris and London — For the album, see Down and Out in Paris and London (album). Down and Out in Paris and London … Wikipedia
down-and-out — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. needy, destitute, poor, on the skids. See poverty.Ant., well off, on easy street. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. broke, penniless, bankrupt, destitute, impoverished, *in the poorhouse, *on the… … English dictionary for students
down-and-out — adjective Date: 1901 1. destitute, impoverished 2. physically weakened or incapacitated • down and out or down and outer noun … New Collegiate Dictionary
