become threadbare
Example Sentences
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Some are making clothes that are so irresistible customers will want to wear them forever, or at least until they become threadbare.
From Washington Post • Oct. 2, 2019
The house had become threadbare from the Johnsons’ five years of incessant entertaining and the influx of seven million tourists after John F. Kennedy’s death.
From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2016
As if life had become threadbare, with the light peeking through.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 19, 2010
Only in his declining years did luxury-loving El Greco's fortunes dwindle, and his regal apartments become threadbare and bleak.
From Time Magazine Archive
Overworked Expressions Words and phrases are often taken up by writers and speakers, repeated, and again taken up by others, and thus their use enlarges in ever-widening circles until the expressions become threadbare.
From Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking by Bechtel, John Hendricks
