go/come down in the world
US also move down in the world informalto 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.
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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