pek eski

Türkisch - Englisch

Definition von pek eski im Türkisch Englisch wörterbuch

threadbare

shabby, frayed and worn to an extent that warp threads show

{a} worn out, shabby, mean, shackneyd

having the nap worn away so that the threads show through; "threadbare rugs"

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'"

Threadbare clothes, carpets, and other pieces of cloth look old, dull, and very thin, because they have been worn or used too much. She sat cross-legged on a square of threadbare carpet. = worn

banal or clichéd; trite or hackneyed

{s} worn, ragged, frayed, shabby

Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations

wearing clothes of threadbare material

Fig

Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes

If you describe an activity, an idea, or an argument as threadbare, you mean that it is very weak, or inadequate, or old and no longer interesting. the government's threadbare domestic policies

having the nap worn away so that the threads show through; "threadbare rugs

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Definition von pek eski im Türkisch Türkisch wörterbuch

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