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DOWN AND OUT

Specialty Definition: DOWN AND OUT

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Finance

Slang expression for being without funds, penniless. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: DOWN AND OUT

Specialty definitions using "DOWN AND OUT": FRIENDMANUEL. (references)

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Modern Usage: DOWN AND OUT

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Lyrics

I met him in a cell in New Orleans, I was down and out. (Mr. Bojangles; performing artist: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)

And now I'm all alone and feeling down and out baby (I Can't Sleep Baby; performing artist: R. Kelly)

When you're down and out, (Bridge Over Troubled Water; performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel)

I said, I was down and out with the blues ("Y.M.C.A."; performing artist: The Village People)

Movie/TV Titles

Down and Out (1912)

Spitting Image: Down and Out in the White House (1986)

Down and Out in New York City (1986)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: DOWN AND OUT

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Books

  • Down and Out in New York City: Homelessness: A Dishonorable Poverty (reference)

  • Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the Forgotten Man (reference)

  • Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness (reference)

  • Down and Out in Paris and London (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: DOWN AND OUT

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On way to Station Stump Down and out - too much mud. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Down and out. Credit: Library of Congress.

Wurtele sugarcane harvester bogged down and out of temporary running condition, Mix, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Expressions: DOWN AND OUT

Expressions using "DOWN AND OUT": be down and out down and out wit flu. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DOWN AND OUT

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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down and out in beverly hills

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Modern Translation: DOWN AND OUT

Language Translations for "DOWN AND OUT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

nokaut (knockdown, knockout), i mbaruar me gjithsej, i marrë fund (out of hand). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏في حالة يأس, ‏فقير مدقع (poverty stricken), ‏معوز (destitute, indigent, infelicitous, insolvent, lack, necessitous, needy, pauper, poor, poverty stricken, starveling), ‏لا يملك أي شىء. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

смазан (laden, prostrate), обеднял (impoverished), изтощен (all in, bushed, effete, emaciated, enervate, exhausted, gaunt, jaded, limp, perished, played out, prostrate, run down, screwy, shagged out, shot, sick, spent, used up, weary, whacked). (various references)

   

Czech

  

èlovìk na dnì. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

on hunningolla (is down and out, is in a bad way). (various references)

   

French

  

sans ressource, sans abri, pauvre, indigent, hors de combat. (various references)

   

German

  

verlumpt (worn out). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

άστεγος, απένταρος (penniless). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ללא פרוט", שבור ורצוץ (tired out, worn out), חסר כל (destitute, stone broke). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

lecsúszott (bung, sunk, to be down), leégett (stony, stony-broke, the bishop has put his foot in it). (various references)

   

Italian

  

squattrinato (penniless), senza una lira, malconcio (battered), malandato (badly off, in bad condition, shabby). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ownday anday outay

   

Romanian

  

deşelat. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

разоренный (broke, gone, kaput, war-devastated), нокаутированный, потерявший все. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

bez prebijene pare (broke), beskućnik (homeless, waif). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

vagabundo (drifter, erring, gipsy, gypsy, outcast, piker, Ranger, rover, runagate, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer), sin un centavo (penniless). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

utslagen (eliminated, outcast). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ไม่มีเงิน. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

derbeder (frumpish, roguish, tramp, untidy, vagabond, vagrant), yıkılmış (broken, broken down, decadent, down, ruined), serseri (adrift, beat, bum, bummer, dawdler, dosser, drifter, errant, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, gadabout, good for nothing, hobo, hoodlum, hooligan, landloper, larrikin, layabout, lowlife, ne'er do well, ne'er-do-weel, never-do-well, no good, outcast, punk, rambler, rascal, reprobate, rogue, roguish, rounder, rover, runagate, stray, strayed, sundowner, swag man, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, varmint, wandering, yob), sefil (abject, beggarly, dead end, destitute, down at heels, hangdog, miserable, poor, poverty stricken, rep, ropy, shabby, sordid, squalid, starveling, wretch, wretched), perişan (confused, dead beat, dead end, desolate, distraught, down at heels, forlorn, hangdog, out at elbows, poor, prostrate, ruinous, run down, scattered, seedy, shoestring, up the spout, wretched), nakavt (kayo, knockout), çökmüş (broken, broken down, cavernous, collapsed, crooked, decadent, decrepit, depressed, down, hollow, shrunk, shrunken). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DOWN AND OUT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-n-n-o-o-t-u-w"

-3 letters: nutwood.

-4 letters: adnoun, outadd, wanton, wonton.

-5 letters: adown, daunt, donna, donut, outdo, tondo, unwon, wound.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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