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wear threadbare

verb as in fret

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Example Sentences

These children usually wear threadbare hand-me-downs already passed through several rounds of siblings.

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

It could wear threadbare cotton garments more threadbare; it could do with a daily bowlful less of rice.

Frank Dalton's education went very little further than this; but, bad as it was, its effect was blunted by the natural frankness and generosity of his character, its worst fruits being an over-estimate of himself and his pretensions, errors which the world has always the watchful kindness to correct in those who wear threadbare coats and patched boots.

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

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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