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Значения термина so threadbare на английском

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Использование термина so threadbare на английском
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But never was the black fabric of war so threadbare.
Mr. Britling Sees It Through
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It's like a man dressed in a black coat so threadbare as to be all shiny.
Memories and Studies
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The fabric of her dress is so threadbare it is rotten and torn at the seams.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
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Her shoes pinched her toes and her tunic was so threadbare that the wind cut right through it.
A feast for crows
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We must perforce be critics of these tear-away wits; which are, moreover, so threadbare to conceal the character!
Celt and Saxon — Volume 1
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But their speech would seem so threadbare, written down in cold blood, that I must not put it here.
Love and Mr. Lewisham
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Was ever transparency so threadbare?
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 6
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Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-theyare so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them.
South Wind
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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.
Dirty Rowdy Thing
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I wish, honest friend, you could have brought subjects not quite so threadbare, and a little better executed; they are but poor things!
Thaddeus of Warsaw
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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 Irish Times
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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 Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 / A Magaz...
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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.
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
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