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go/come down in the world idiom informal (US alsomove down in the world) to have less money or a worse social position than you had before: 潦倒;落泊 They used to live in a big house with lots of servants, but they've come down in the world since then.他们曾经住在一所大房子里,仆役成群,可后来家道中落。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Class & class-consciousness in general anti-bourgeois anti-snob arriviste bougie gentrification gentrify go/come up in the worldidiom heap petty bourgeois pleb plebby plebeian the bottom of the heapidiom the gentry the petite bourgeoisie the upper crust underclass ungenteel ungentrified upper class
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