wrong side of the tracks
Rough part of town
The wrong side of the tracks is the poorer or less respectable part of town, from the era when railroad tracks often divided prosperous neighborhoods from industrial areas and working-class housing.
Someone from the wrong side of the tracks has lower-class origins: Her parents disapproved because he came from the wrong side of the tracks.
- slumImpoverished urban district
- bad part of townDangerous urban district
- projectPlanned, effortful task
- low-income housingSubsidized shelter for the poor
- barrioHispanic urban district
dead end street · hood · redlining · underclass · class divide · class warfare · inner city · neighborhood · outskirts · stigma · social stigma · favela · prejudice · gentrification · hard knocks · discrimination · social mobility · bootstrap myth
- train termsall aboard, engine, departure time, arrival time, passenger car
- slumsslum, slums, shanty, shanties, shack
wrong side of the tracksaffluent neighborhood
Prosperous residential area
uptown · gated community · Park Avenue · Beverly Hills · leafy suburb
wrong side of the trackswell-bred
Having good upbringing
blue blood · pedigreed · privileged upbringing · old money · well-connected
wrong, wrongly, wrongful, wrongfully, wrongness, wronged, wronging, wrongs, sides