Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
downwardly mobile
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
â–ª Right: stalagmites are one of the many treats in store for the downwardly mobile.
Usage examples of "downwardly mobile".
These days, it was often the last pretension that the downwardly mobile would relinquish-and they did not give it up easily.
These days, it was often the last pretension that the downwardly mobile would relinquish—.
These days, it was often the last pretension that the downwardly mobile would relinquishand they did not give it up easily.
Whatever quaint charm Moonlight Court once possessed was now thoroughly debauched by age and the decidedly downwardly mobile neighborhood surrounding it.