down-at-heel

Kazuo Ishiguroの "The Unconsoled" を読んでいます。

His name was Geoffrey Saunders and he had been in my year at school in England. I had not seen him since schooldays, so was naturally struck by how much he had aged. Even allowing for the unflattering effects of the lamplight and the cold drizzle, he looked overwhelmingly down-at-heel. He was wearing a raincoat that seemed to have lost its ability to fasten and which he was now clutching together at the front as he walked.

"down-at-heel" の意味を調べます。

・Oxford English Dictionary: looking less attractive and fashionable than before, usually because of a lack of money: The town has become very down at heel.
・Collins Dictionary: Something that is down-at-heel is in bad condition because it has been used too much or has not been looked after properly. If you say that someone is down-at-heel, you mean that they are wearing old, worn clothes because they have little money.: a down-at-heel waitress in a greasy New York diner.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: wearing old clothes, or in a bad condition, because of not having much money: She had a decidedly down-at-heel appearance.

最初に引用した辞書だけハイフンの無い表現でした。