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wear threadbare

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It takes courage to wear threadbare clothes while your comrades dress in broadcloth.

Wear threadbare clothes if you must, but never carry an inaccurate watch.

He was content to wear threadbare cloth, but adhered most obstinately to a prejudice in favour of clean linen.

It is a task to wear threadbare the teacher's patience and to do all kinds of things to the temper.

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