落らく魄はく

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

fall into poverty; be reduced to poverty; come down in the world

Describes a person's decline from a previously comfortable or prosperous state into poverty or straitened circumstances. Often used in literary or formal contexts.

• 彼かれは事じ業ぎょうに失しっ敗ぱいして落らく魄はくした。

  He failed in business and was reduced to poverty.

• 落らく魄はくの身みとなっても、彼かれは誇ほこりを失うしなわなかった。

  Even after falling into poverty, he did not lose his pride.