Значения для термина "wear threadbare" отсутствуют.
1 In some future hook, probably the twentieth or twenty-fifth, when the plot logins to wear threadbare , and we can afford a digression.
2 In the unlimited leisure of the wilderness, discussion had been worn threadbare .
3 The furniture, originally rich and elegant, was now worn threadbare and lustreless.
4 Wear threadbare clothes, if you must, but never carry an inaccurate watch.
5 It had been worn threadbare ; but we adopted it as a new idea.
6 But shabby finery-genteelgowns worn threadbare : there is a deep degradation in those.'
7 The silk covering of the walls had faded and, in places, worn threadbare .
8 Come, Van, we have had enough chaff on this topic, already worn threadbare .
9 AFP correspondents saw prisoners wearing threadbare uniforms in the prison's male and female sections.
10 And we watch them in unison, not forgetting the shabby old cock, worn threadbare .
11 Rustily drest, with his spectacles in his hand, and their very case worn threadbare .
12 I could not help sympathising with him, though visibly the cloth was wearing threadbare .
13 Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories.
14 The patience of the people is worn threadbare .
15 And so, though her strength was worn threadbare through perpetual strain, she clung to it still.
16 The men she met were investigated, discussed, speculated upon until their every characteristic was worn threadbare .
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