down-and-out in English

adjective
1
(of a person) without money, a job, or a place to live; destitute.
a down-and-out homeless vagrant
synonyms:destitutepoverty-strickenimpoverishedpennilessinsolventimpecuniousneedyin straitened circumstancesdistressedbadly offhomelesson the streetsvagrantsleeping roughhard up(flat) brokestrapped (for cash)without a red centon skid row
noun
1
a person without money, a job, or a place to live.
synonyms:poor personpauperindigentbeggarhomeless personpanhandlervagranttrampdrifterderelictvagabondhobohave-notbag ladybum
adjective
noun

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1. "Click: Up, Down and Out at Kodak".

2. The bum was down and out on skid row.

3. The resin moves intermittently down and out of the bed.

4. Put on your Sunday clothes when you feel down and out

5. Tears flow is down and out, because you never know what I choose!

6. In short, this is Nik Cohn's kaleidoscopic variation on the Down and Out in ... theme.

7. Synonyms for Beggar include tramp, mendicant, bum, derelict, hobo, scrounger, vagabond, down-and-out, pauper and vagrant

8. Once a very rich man, he is now down and out and must depend upon his friends for help.

9. Synonyms for Bindlestiff include down and out, bankrupt, indigent, pauper, poor person, beggar, derelict, drifter, homeless person and insolvent

10. Churchgoers looked Aghast as a scruffy down-and-out huddled in the church doorway as they arrived for morning service.

11. Darlington were down and out a minute later when Mark McGhee crossed from the right for Maskell to complete his hat trick.

12. The Agitator auger rotates one way but not the other, which forces the laundry down and out for a constant tumbling during the wash cycle

13. The Agitator auger rotates one way but not the other, which forces the laundry down and out for a constant tumbling during the wash cycle

14. Breadline noun, originally US a queue of poor or down-and-out people waiting for handouts of bread or other food, from charity or government sources.

15. I scurried up the ladder on the back, and when I stood up, the electrical current entered my arm, blew down and out my feet, and that was that.

16. I haven't forgotten that time I was accosted by that deranged down-and-out meths drinker who leapt out of a cardboard box wearing a Vivienne Westwood catsuit and Chanel mules.

17. But to go back still further the last twelve years , since Hitler came to power what astonishing changes and developments , what brilliant successes and down and out failures these have witnessed .

18. Cannery Row - the section of town where the now closed fish canneries are located - is inhabited primarily by the down and out, although many would not move away even if they could

19. In June of 1999 an unlikely colt named Charismatic, with down and out jockey Chris Antley aboard, headed down the stretch at the Belmont Stakes, just seconds away from becoming the first Triple Crown winner in nearly 21 years.

20. In June of 1999 an unlikely colt named Charismatic, with down and out jockey Chris Antley aboard, headed down the stretch at the Belmont Stakes, just seconds away from becoming the first Triple Crown winner in nearly 21 years.

21. In an organically adjunct nurse administers enema, the rectum galls somehow the nonprofit Accordants (as in the metonymical aboriginals describing the Karma of hospitalization, and those, obstructively curmudgeonly, describing the Karma of guttorm - chickenhearted down-and-out opportunities conically not perceived) and unknowingly revolves

22. The author's name, Jade Sharma, conjures an elegance that her protagonist refuses: Maya could not be further from the legend of the colonial opium eater, Broidered with hip-bony decadence, if she embodied the opposite one--to wit, the Nixonian myth that only the down-and-out, the poor and black, the white trash get high and addicted.