Dic: down at hill (down-at-hill, down at the hill)

• When I first met her she was down-at-heel but still respectable. 
• The play was set in a down-at-heel hotel in post-war Germany. 
• a down-at-heel waitress in a greasy New York diner.

1. down-at-heel (British, American & Australian) also down-at-the-heel(American) | badly dressed or in a bad condition because of a lack of money. 
2. ADJ : usu ADJ n | (1) Something that is down-at-heel is in a in bad condition because it has been used too much or has not been looked after properly.
   (2) If you say that someone is down-at-heel, you mean that they are wearing old, worn clothes because they have little money.

... http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/down-at-heel, Cobuild