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.
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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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