wrong side of the tracks
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Scott is celebrating her 44th year on the show as Nikki Newman, a poor girl from the wrong side of the tracks.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2023
Like other Rock Hall-of-Famers, from Elvis Presley to Johnny Rotten, Cotten was a rebel from the wrong side of the tracks who reinvented herself.
From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2022
Half a century ago, 123 three- and four-year-olds, all of them African American and all from low-income families who lived on the wrong side of the tracks in Ypsilanti, Mich., participated in an experiment.
From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2021
An old-money Harvard man Oliver woos and weds a no-money music student from the wrong side of the tracks.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2020
As if it wasn't already bad enough on the floor of a garage on the wrong side of the tracks in Bakersfield.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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