THREADBARE — ТЛУМАЧЕННЯ
threadbare
Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse.
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- 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'.
Having the nap worn away so that the threads show through.
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- Threadbare rugs.
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