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.
Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes.
Adjective S.
repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails''"
Adjective S.
having the nap worn away so that the threads show through; "threadbare rugs"
a.
Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off;
threadbare clothes.
a.
Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics
and threadbare quotations.
Threadbare
Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes.
Usage Examples
This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
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