wear threadbare
Example Sentences
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These children usually wear threadbare hand-me-downs already passed through several rounds of siblings.
From Salon • May 28, 2015
It could wear threadbare cotton garments more threadbare; it could do with a daily bowlful less of rice.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a task to wear threadbare the teacher's patience and to do all kinds of things to the temper.
From Lad: A Dog by Terhune, Albert Payson
In some future hook, probably the twentieth or twenty-fifth, when the plot logins to wear threadbare, and we can afford a digression.
From Vivian Grey by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
It was a fixed principle of his life to dress as well as his neighbours when they could see him, but to wear threadbare garments whenever he could do so unobserved.
From Sant' Ilario by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
