other side of the tracks

other side of the tracks
the other side of the tracks & the wrong side of the tracks
the poor part of a town or city. •

He was a rich boy, and she was a girl from the other side of the tracks.

You don't want to buy a house in that neighborhood. It's on the wrong side of the tracks.

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See: WRONG SIDE OF THE TRACKS.

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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