threadbare

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• 19. februar 2013 fra wordnet.princeton.edu

  threadbare — tillægsord — engelsk

  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'"

• 31. marts 2016 fra wordnet.princeton.edu

  threadbare — tillægsord — engelsk

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