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- noun Plural form of
down-and-outer .
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Examples
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In the 1930s, government programs sought to bring about "self-sufficiency," providing land to down-and-outers, including Johnny Cash's parents.
Tug-of-War With Nature Dave Shiflett 2011
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In fact I would imagine it would not be such a bad idea for some down-and-outers to go to prison to get a free ticket to 30-buck-an-hour, rather than scrimp and save the way I and many other Canadians had to do in order to get into a position of pay we could survive on.
In For A Penny, Out For A Pound « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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And, speaking of eyewash, Mike Barnicle persists in presenting himself on Morning Joe as the gruff man of the people, after finally being dumped by the Boston Globe a decade ago for fabricating and stealing his stories about working class Boston down-and-outers (only to be picked up without hesitation by the Boston Herald -- and MSNBC).
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Commentary especially on corruption in high places and the lives down-and-outers have to live.
What do you mean by "Chandlerian"? Peter Rozovsky 2010
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In fact I would imagine it would not be such a bad idea for some down-and-outers to go to prison to get a free ticket to 30-buck-an-hour, rather than scrimp and save the way I and many other Canadians had to do in order to get into a position of pay we could survive on.
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And, speaking of eyewash, Mike Barnicle persists in presenting himself on Morning Joe as the gruff man of the people, after finally being dumped by the Boston Globe a decade ago for fabricating and stealing his stories about working class Boston down-and-outers (only to be picked up without hesitation by the Boston Herald -- and MSNBC).
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Republicans think that wearing designer clothes with a tramp motif is a way of showing a "we're all in this together" display of sympathy for the down-and-outers.
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The down-and-outers in the narrow hallway, of course, were there as place-holders in the line for the most elite lobbyists and Washington representatives of the even bigger, post-meltdown investment and commercial banks like Goldman Sachs and J. P Morgan Chase; such firms are now on track to pay their employees a record $140 billion this year.
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He never felt that the people he wrote about were losers and down-and-outers—the waitress, the bus driver, the mechanic; the country is filled with these people.
Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009
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The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (1948) - Fred Dobbs, Bob Curtin and an old-timer named Howard, three motley down-and-outers in Mexico (Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt and Walter Huston, respectively), pool their meager resources and set off to search for gold.
John Farr: The Alarming Decline Of Expressive Language, In Life and On Film 2009
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