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| Domain | Definition |
Finance | Slang expression for being without funds, penniless. (references) |
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Crosswords: DOWN AND OUT |
| Specialty definitions using "DOWN AND OUT": FRIEND ♦ MANUEL. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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Books | |
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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. | ||
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Expressions using "DOWN AND OUT": be down and out ♦ down and out wit flu. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
down and out in beverly hills | 17 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 deşelat. (various references) разоренный (broke, gone, kaput, war-devastated), нокаутированный, потерявший все. (various references) bez prebijene pare (broke), beskućnik (homeless, waif). (various references) vagabundo (drifter, erring, gipsy, gypsy, outcast, piker, Ranger, rover, runagate, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer), sin un centavo (penniless). (various references) utslagen (eliminated, outcast). (various references) ไม่มีเงิน. (various references) 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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| 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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