down-and-out
adjective
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: physically weakened or incapacitated
down-and-out
noun
or down-and-outer
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Adapted from Sara Gruen’s 2006 best-seller, the story follows the young Jacob Jankowski (Grant Gustin), a vet school dropout who stumbles into a job with a down-and-out circus in the early 1930s.
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Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
Pyle, as Doom’s down-and-out mom, surprises with a deep, melodious bark of a voice, which matches Cammish’s own talented howl.
—Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2024
But the sight of a down-and-out Dan Aykroyd in a Santa suit eating a slab of salmon through his grungy cotton-candy beard fills us with the holiday spirit.
—Chris Nashawaty, EW.com, 28 Nov. 2023
Based on Candice Fox’s best-selling Crimson Lake novels, Troppo stars Jane as a down-and-out ex-cop Ted Conkaffey, who teams up with Amanda Pharell (Chamoun), an eccentric small-town private investigator to find out who murdered a local tech pioneer.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Nov. 2023
To round out the character’s down-and-out image, the movie gives the fictional Rongen a drinking problem and hot temper that the real, exceedingly amiable Rongen didn’t possess.
—Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
Twenty-four years ago, a minister to the down-and-out of Des Moines took a mid-career leap into the unknown, moving his growing family west to become pastor for poverty outreach at a Pasadena church.
—Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
On a recent afternoon in the Tenderloin, a gritty district of sidewalk encampments and open-air drug dealing, Mr. Moore and I walked by immigrant mothers shepherding their children past the down-and-out residents splayed on sidewalks.
—Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea Making her stage debut, the dame of deadpan, Aubrey Plaza, will star opposite Christopher Abbott in John Patrick Shanley’s classic down-and-out love story this October at the Lucille Lortel Theater in the West Village.
—Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 3 Aug. 2023
Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
Pyle, as Doom’s down-and-out mom, surprises with a deep, melodious bark of a voice, which matches Cammish’s own talented howl.
—Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2024
But the sight of a down-and-out Dan Aykroyd in a Santa suit eating a slab of salmon through his grungy cotton-candy beard fills us with the holiday spirit.
—Chris Nashawaty, EW.com, 28 Nov. 2023
Based on Candice Fox’s best-selling Crimson Lake novels, Troppo stars Jane as a down-and-out ex-cop Ted Conkaffey, who teams up with Amanda Pharell (Chamoun), an eccentric small-town private investigator to find out who murdered a local tech pioneer.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Nov. 2023
To round out the character’s down-and-out image, the movie gives the fictional Rongen a drinking problem and hot temper that the real, exceedingly amiable Rongen didn’t possess.
—Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
Twenty-four years ago, a minister to the down-and-out of Des Moines took a mid-career leap into the unknown, moving his growing family west to become pastor for poverty outreach at a Pasadena church.
—Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
On a recent afternoon in the Tenderloin, a gritty district of sidewalk encampments and open-air drug dealing, Mr. Moore and I walked by immigrant mothers shepherding their children past the down-and-out residents splayed on sidewalks.
—Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea Making her stage debut, the dame of deadpan, Aubrey Plaza, will star opposite Christopher Abbott in John Patrick Shanley’s classic down-and-out love story this October at the Lucille Lortel Theater in the West Village.
—Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 3 Aug. 2023
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