come/go down in the world
mainly UKto 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!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Class & class-consciousness in general
- arriviste
- bougie
- bourgeois
- class struggle
- class-conscious
- Hooray Henry
- inverted snob
- lower class
- lowest common denominator
- marry
- prole
- proletarian
- riff-raff
- Sloane Ranger
- snob
- underclass
- untouchable
- upper class
- upwardly mobile
- well bred
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