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单词 to come down in the world
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to come (also go) down in the world
d. to come (also go) down in the world.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > be in adversity [verb (intransitive)] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition
afalleOE
wanec1000
fallOE
ebba1420
to go backward?a1425
to go down?1440
decay1483
sink?a1513
delapsea1530
reel1529
decline1530
to go backwards1562
rue1576
droop1577
ruina1600
set1607
lapse1641
to lose ground1647
to go to pigs and whistles1794
to come (also go) down in the world1819
to peg out1852
to lose hold, one's balance1877
to go under1879
toboggan1887
slip1930
to turn down1936
the mind > possession > poverty > be poor [verb (intransitive)] > become poor
poor?a1300
to come downa1382
decay1483
to bring haddock to paddock1546
to come to want1590
ruina1600
to come (also go) down in the world1819
1819 Families of Owen & De Montfort I. v. 75 It's a sign her father's come down in the world, seeing his daughter crouches so low to one who was once her equal.
1837 J. S. Mill Let. 6 Aug. in Wks. (1963) XII. 346 To alter their style of living and go (as the vulgar phrase is) down in the world.
1852 Preston Guardian 2 Oct. 3/5 When a tradesman came down in the world he might perhaps rise again.
1889 C. E. L. Riddell Princess Sunshine I. i. 8 They had come down in the world.
1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands v. 51 Miss Pilcher, who had been in ‘the profession’ as a Fat Girl, had come down in the world.
1959 O. Sitwell Place of one's Own 56 She still occupied her father's substantial house in Penge, but she had come down in the world.
2002 N. Lebrecht Song of Names iv. 58 Strong-boned and with a cut-glass voice, Mother held herself with an hauteur that suggested she had come down in the world through no fault of her own.
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