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draggle-tailed
vs
out at the heels
draggle-tailed
adj
Slatternly, untidy, unkempt.
out at the heels
adj
Shabby, or in a poor plight.
Wearing stockings that are worn out.
How often have the words
draggle-tailed
and
out at the heels
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)