Significados de so threadbare en inglés

But never was the black fabric of war so threadbare.

It's like a man dressed in a black coat so threadbare as to be all shiny.

The fabric of her dress is so threadbare it is rotten and torn at the seams.

Her shoes pinched her toes and her tunic was so threadbare that the wind cut right through it.

We must perforce be critics of these tear-away wits; which are, moreover, so threadbare to conceal the character!

But their speech would seem so threadbare, written down in cold blood, that I must not put it here.

Was ever transparency so threadbare?

Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-theyare so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them.

Mindless chatter won't work here, but I'm not entirely sure I can handle his rough edges tonight when I'm feeling so threadbare myself.

I wish, honest friend, you could have brought subjects not quite so threadbare, and a little better executed; they are but poor things!

Six and a half decades have passed since 1951, a memory so threadbare now that it, too, seems to have been some sort of illusion.

The black clothes he wore were so threadbare and shining at the knees and elbows, the coarse leather shoes brought to so fine a polish!

The history of this passage, the famous "Desague de Huehuetoca," is instructive enough, but it has been written so threadbare that I cannot touch it.