come/go down in the world
mainly UKDefinition
› to lose the money and high social rank that you had in the past: Fancy her taking a job like that - she's certainly come down in the world!Class and class-consciousness in generalWealthiness and wealthyPoverty and poor
(Definition of come/go down in the world from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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come/be a poor second, third, etc. idiom
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come/crawl out of the woodwork idiom
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come/follow hard/hot on the heels of sth idiom
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come/get (down) off your high horse idiom
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come/get to grips with sth idiom
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come/go under the hammer idiom
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come/go/be along for the ride idiom
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come/go/turn full circle idiom
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come/suffer under the lash idiom
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comeback noun
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Synonyms and related words:
- arriviste noun
- bourgeois adjective
- class struggle noun
- class-conscious adjective
- classless adjective
- inverted snob noun
- landless adjective
- lower class adjective
- lowest common denominator noun (POPULAR)
- marry beneath you idiom
- middle class noun
- Sloane Ranger noun
- snob noun
- snobbery noun
- snobbish adjective
- social climber noun
- upper class noun
- upwardly mobile adjective
- well bred adjective
- working class noun
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