go down in the world

"I just realized I'm going down in the world.

"Acted like they'd gone down in the world, fallen on hard times, like.

they've gone down in the world again a bit.

I say " had " not has "; for perhaps homes have gone down in the world and schools gone up since then.

"I believe if I were going down in the World Series," he replied, "I'd want to go down swinging."

"In order to sometimes get a different perspective on what's going down in the world, to reach back to your humanity, you read novels," Mr. Sheen said.

Stylist Leeann Soki Mak chats to Gemma about what's going down in the world of fashion.

If this man could afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world."

And this whole romance of ours is a tedious old story; a man loses heart and begins to go down in the world; a girl appears, brave and strong of heart, and gives him a hand to help him to rise again.

Here, he is represented by "The New American Ghetto," a series on the Central Ward of Newark that takes note of a housing project awaiting demolition and other buildings that have gone down in the world - or up, as the case may be.

CRIME'S COME-BACK CHET PARRIDGE had gone down in the world since his visit to Caleb Yetter; farther down than any laundry chute could have carried him.

Both she and Arthur had gone down in the world separately since she took care of him, both falling into poverty and gloomy inebriation, both suffering from the effects of love gone sour: Annie's marriage had come apart and Arthur's father had left his mother.