Definition of Threadbare

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Definition of Threadbare
	Threadbare Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes. Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations. Related Definitions: And, As, Clothes, Fig, Having, Naked, Nap, Off, Out, Stale, Subject, The, Thread, Threadbare, To, Worn

Threadbare Quotations

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
Thomas Dekker

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
Fiona Shaw

Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken - they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.
William Watson

Threadbare Translations

threadbare in German is fadenscheinige, fadenscheinig, fadenscheinig
threadbare in Spanish is calvo

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