on the wrong side of the tracks

In a part of a town or city that is particularly impoverished (and usually dangerous or undesirable as a result). His mother constantly warned him about spending time on the wrong side of the tracks.

from/on the ˌwrong side of the ˈtracks

(informal) from or living in a poor area or part of town: She married a man from the wrong side of the tracks.

See also: of, on, side, track, wrong

Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

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from the wrong side of the tracks
from/on the wrong side of the tracks
other side of the tracks
side of the tracks
the other side of the tracks
the wrong side of the tracks
wrong side of the tracks
wrong side of the tracks, the
ghetto
ghetto bird

References in periodicals archive

You'll hear that one big shot told another to go to hell, or laughed at him because he mispronounced a word and revealed that he grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. Then you ask someone else, and he doesn't remember it quite that way.

The reckoning

词组	on the wrong side of the tracks
释义	on the wrong side of the tracks on the wrong side of the tracks In a part of a town or city that is particularly impoverished (and usually dangerous or undesirable as a result). His mother constantly warned him about spending time on the wrong side of the tracks. See also: of, on, side, track, wrong Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. from/on the ˌwrong side of the ˈtracks (informal) from or living in a poor area or part of town: She married a man from the wrong side of the tracks. See also: of, on, side, track, wrong Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary See also: from the wrong side of the tracks from/on the wrong side of the tracks other side of the tracks side of the tracks the other side of the tracks the wrong side of the tracks wrong side of the tracks wrong side of the tracks, the ghetto ghetto bird References in periodicals archive You'll hear that one big shot told another to go to hell, or laughed at him because he mispronounced a word and revealed that he grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. Then you ask someone else, and he doesn't remember it quite that way. The reckoning
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