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wrong side of the tracks

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the wrong side of the tracks
the poor area of a city or town. She was brought up on the wrong side of the tracks in a small southern town.
Usage notes: sometimes used in the forms the wrong side of town or the wrong side of the street: Her family was clearly from the wrong side of town.
Etymology: based on the idea that a poor area is often divided from the rest of a town by railroad tracks
See also: side, track, wrong
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