go/come down in the world
UK (US move down in the world) informalDefinition
› to have less money or a worse social position than you had before: They used to live in a big house with lots of servants, but they've come down in the world since then.Class and class-consciousness in generalWealthiness and wealthyPoverty and poor
(Definition of go/come down in the world from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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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
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