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A.Word.A.Day--down-at-the-heel Pronunciation: WAV or RealAudio down-at-heel (doun-at-HEEL) or down-at-the-heel adjective 1. Worn out from long use or neglect; dilapidated. 2. Shabbily dressed because of poverty; seedy. "In Missing Susan (1991), for instance, we have a group of American tourists as seen through the eyes of a down-at-the-heels English tour guide, Rowan Rover, who has been paid to arrange a fatal accident for one of his charges." Robert F. Geary, Elegy for the Last Outlaw, The World & I, 1 Jan 1995. This week's theme: idioms. X-Bonus Change your thoughts and you change your world. -Norman Vincent Peale

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