| 释义 | come/go down in the worldidiommainly UK
 to lose the money and high social rank that you had in the past: 失势,没落
 Fancy her taking a job like that - she's certainly come down in the world!她竟然会去做那样的工作——她肯定是失势了!
 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
 Class & class-consciousness in general
 anti-bourgeois
 anti-snob
 arriviste
 bougie
 gentrify
 go/come down in the worldidiom
 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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