come/go down in the world

British, Australian, American, American & Australian

to have less money and a worse social position than you had before.

They used to live in a big house with lots of servants, but they've come down in the world since then.

When we had to sell our house and take a small apartment downtown, we felt we'd really moved down in the world.

• be short of a bob or two
• be shot of
• be shot of someone
• be shot of something
• be shot to hell
• be shot to pieces
• be sick and tired of
• be sick and tired of doing something
• be sick and tired of something
• beside
• beside the point
• beside yourself
• be sitting in the catbird seat
• be sitting on a goldmine
• be sitting on tail
• be sitting on your tail
• be sitting pretty
• be six feet under
• be skating on thin ice
• be skin and bone
• be skin and bones
• be slow off the mark
• be slow on the draw
• be slow on the uptake
• be sneezed at