英语词汇“on one's uppers”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	on one's uppers
释义	on one's uppers SEE SYNONYMS FOR on one's uppers ON THESAURUS.COM Poor, in reduced circumstances, as in as in The Smiths try to hide the fact that they're on their uppers. First recorded in 1886, this metaphoric term alludes to having worn out the soles of one's shoes so badly that only the top portions remain. Words nearby on one's uppers on one's say-so, on one's shoulders, on one's soapbox, on one's tail, on one's toes, on one's uppers, on one's way, on order, on pain of, on paper, on-peak The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Words related to on one's uppers bad off, bankrupt, beggarly, broke, destitute, down-and-out, flat, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, insolvent, low, meager, needy, penniless, penurious, poverty-stricken, reduced, scanty
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on one's uppers