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Meanings of threadbare clothes in English

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Usage of threadbare clothes in English
1
He still wore his threadbare clothes and a flask at his side.
Maleficent
2
Wear threadbare clothes, if you must, but never carry an inaccurate watch.
The True Citizen: How to Become One
3
The shabby, threadbare clothes hung loosely from the stooping shoulders.
All Roads Lead to Calvary
4
While doing this, he saw a clerk coming to him in old, threadbare clothes.
Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic
5
She carefully noted the man's slight figure, and threadbare clothes.
Jess of the Rebel Trail
6
She sank to her knees in her threadbare clothes, letting them pool around her.
Ruthless
7
He, too, sat in the sunlight, which was not kind to his green, threadbare clothes.
The Dark House
8
You know some of these writers are horribly poor and go about with threadbare clothes.
Two Boys and a Fortune; Or, The Tyler Will
9
In spite of her threadbare clothes, she had a neat and cleanly look and gentle manners.
A Man for the Ages: A Story of the Builders of Democracy
10
They're all dressed in expensive but threadbare clothes.
The Beast Within
11
During this interchange of words, the office-boy had been scanning Bob and his threadbare clothes contemptuously.
Bob Chester's Grit; Or, From Ranch to Riches
12
Wear threadbare clothes and patched shoes if necessary, but do not pinch or economize on books.
Pushing to the Front
13
In spite of their patched and threadbare clothes, their style and their manners were full of dignity.
Between the Woods and the Water
14
In their threadbare clothes they looked like the supernumeraries that represent rank and fashion at stage weddings in third-rate theatres.
Two Poets
15
Many wore threadbare clothes.
The Irish Times
16
Young Haydn, then, was wandering, weary and perplexed, through its streets, with threadbare clothes on his back and nothing in his purse.
Haydn
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