on skid row

In utter poverty or squalid circumstances. It's amazing that, after nearly five years on skid row, he's now one of the biggest names in show business.

on skid row

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Skid row is a poor part of a city where many people who are homeless and alcoholic live. He worked for twenty years catching drug dealers on the city's skid row. Note: You say that someone is on skid row when they have lost all their money and possessions. A drug addict who lived on skid row, she fit the profile of the other missing women.

skid row, on

Destitute, down-and-out. The term comes from the American lumber industry, where it first signified a skidway down which felled logs were slid. In time the part of a town frequented by loggers, which abounded in taverns and brothels, was called Skid Road. In the mid-twentieth century it again became “skid row” and was applied to any area of cheap barrooms and rundown hotels frequented by vagrants and alcoholics.

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释义	on skid row on skid row In utter poverty or squalid circumstances. It's amazing that, after nearly five years on skid row, he's now one of the biggest names in show business. See also: on, row, skid Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. on skid row mainly AMERICAN, INFORMAL Skid row is a poor part of a city where many people who are homeless and alcoholic live. He worked for twenty years catching drug dealers on the city's skid row. Note: You say that someone is on skid row when they have lost all their money and possessions. A drug addict who lived on skid row, she fit the profile of the other missing women. See also: on, row, skid Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. skid row, on Destitute, down-and-out. The term comes from the American lumber industry, where it first signified a skidway down which felled logs were slid. In time the part of a town frequented by loggers, which abounded in taverns and brothels, was called Skid Road. In the mid-twentieth century it again became “skid row” and was applied to any area of cheap barrooms and rundown hotels frequented by vagrants and alcoholics. See also: on, skid The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: skid row, on skid-row bum skid row bum skid row squeak out be going to hell go to hell in a bucket go to hell in a handbasket, to handbasket handcart References in periodicals archive As I write this review, I am listening to the news about the killing of another homeless person, a man on Skid Row, a 50-square-block section of downtown Los Angeles. An oasis on Skid Row: essays capture the texture of catholic worker life TEHRAN (FNA)- US Activists in Los Angeles denounced police and city officials for their handling of the death of a homeless man who was shot and killed by officers on skid row. US Activists Urge Probe into Death of Black Man He apparently was living the entire time on Skid Row, roughly 50 square blocks of liquor stores, warehouses, charitable missions and a few modest businesses. Failures by three governments preceded man's shooting death Caught on video filmed by a bystander that circulated widely on the Internet, the shooting triggered protests and calls by civil rights activists for a special police commission hearing on police use of force on skid row. Homeless man shot dead by LAPD had served time for bank robbery "Gigi the Famous Rescue Dog: From Skid Row to Embassy Row" is an inspiring story about a black, Flat -Coated Retriever who was abandoned by her owners, left to forage for scraps with other homeless dogs on Skid Row. A starving Gigi was trapped by an evil man who chained her in a dirty basement with many other dogs and treated very badly. Gigi the Famous Rescue Dog Out of the ICLC's offices on Skid Row, Malpecle held theater workshops for the area's homeless population, assembling a core of performers now known as the Los Angeles Poverty Department. Los Angeles Poverty Department On Skid Row there is a flower shop which, unsurprisingly, does little or no business. A thought-provoking piece of theatre; REVIEW: Little Shop Of Horrors, Aberystwyth Arts Centre ????? .... Some 800 people bed down on Skid Row nightly, most are mentally ill or substance abusers. LA told to clean up Skid Row "Murder on Skid Row" tells the story of Mel Greenburg, an optimistic dentist who tries to make a difference in Chicago's seedy skid row. Helen's Bookshelf Dean barters with Father Joe to perform healings on Skid Row for a motel room to sleep in and a small daily allowance. Sympathy for Delicious As medical director for Homeless Health Care Los Angeles, where I run a clinic at a needle exchange on Skid Row, and as a staff physician at the free Venice Family Clinic, where 25% of our patients are homeless, I treat wounds and abscesses on about 10 patients per week ("MRSA Showing No Mercy in Skin Infections," Oct. Treatment options for MRSA MJ: What did you learn about yourself from your time on Skid Row? Undercover brother: Pras Michel hits Skid Row Now, amid rapid-fire gentrification of the downtown area, city leaders have implemented a police crackdown on Skid Row that has resulted in the harassment, arrest and displacement of thousands of poor people of color. LAPD gentrifies Skid Row: as the affluent take the city, poor Black residents are pushed out with force You know, after my stabbing, I had gone through a lot of stuff and I lived on skid row for a minute. Mekole Wells: singer, Survivor And while McCall won't be on skid row managers on the move should be well warned. Gordon Waddell: United pay price for big overspend
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