| 单词 | threadbare |
| 释义 | threadbare (once / 3286 pages) adj Those jeans you wear every day that have holes in the knees and thin patches in the rear? They're threadbare. Threadbare means thin from overuse. Furniture, clothing or a rug is threadbare if the fabric is thin and worn through. If your father tells the same jokes over and over again, you might accuse him of having a threadbare sense of humor. A friend who chooses to live a threadbare lifestyle doesn't have a lot of things, and what they do have is not in the best of shape. When you see this word, picture your childhood stuffed animal with the fur rubbed thin from too much cuddling. WORD FAMILYthreadbare USAGE EXAMPLESFor the threadbare hopes of its football club’s top-flight future hang on the Scotland international’s use of it. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) But fast forward almost 70 years, and the ideals of the 1940s are starting to look a little threadbare. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) The whole series felt like a threadbare film idea meaninglessly stretched to total breaking point. The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016) 1adj having the nap worn away so that the threads show through threadbare rugs Syn worn affected by wear; damaged by long use 2adj repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse repeating threadbare jokes Syn banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn unoriginal not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual |
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