become threadbare

The staunch opposition to MAGA-dom that the magazine once proudly championed, like when the editorial board rejected the presumptive Republican nominee out of hand in early 2016, has become threadbare by many long years of defeat.

“His legacy could become threadbare.”

Some are making clothes that are so irresistible customers will want to wear them forever, or at least until they become threadbare.

To their credit, McMasters and Kahn do not trumpet the diverse backgrounds of the authors they are lucky enough to publish — and they might have; the d-word has been tossed around so much it’s become threadbare.

But the civil designation of deportation hearings is tied to a 125-year-old Supreme Court decision whose moorings have become threadbare with the passage of time, as America’s immigration apparatus has become more and more indistinguishable from our criminal armament.