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come/go down in the world idiommainly 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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