Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak.
Suddenly he felt something inside the lining of the threadbare jacket.
Our logon(AuthBundle) is relatively threadbare because OmniFind is a stateless repository that does not support a continuous session.
Throughout my conversation with the deputy head, two small teenage girls in threadbare school uniforms sat watching from a brick wall by the playground.
With a United squad looking suddenly threadbare, and a vintage manager due for retirement himself before too long, United supporters cannot help but see parallels between Stretford and Florida.
a threadbare beggar
(cause sth to)become useless,threadbare or exhausted through use
The furniture was threadbare; he'd obviously picked it up for nothing.
A threadbare overcoat did little to keep the piercing wind off Patrick Ryan's back as he walked briskly to the pub at Ballyblagh.
"I fancy a bit o 'bacon an' egg," he said, and sat down beside the fire and placed his pointed elbows in the centers of the two threadbare patches on the arms of his chair.
She sat cross-legged on a square of threadbare carpet.
The Entrance Hall is a large room with peeling wallpaper, threadbare carpet, gas lamps, and a serpent-shaped, cobwebby candleabra.
At the one end of the hall, the one where he was, were judges, with abstracted air, in threadbare robes, who were gnawing their nails or closing their eyelids;
His Cannons bedspread is a bit threadbare;
As the old man stares down at the threadbare carpet, a mangy dog chews at scraps under the kitchen sink.
His shirt of coarse yellow linen, fastened at the neck by a small silver anchor, permitted a view of his hairy breast: he had a cravat twisted into a string,trousers of blue drilling, worn and threadbare, white on one knee and torn on the other;
a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing.
a threadbare carpet, coat
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'.
At some institutions, mounting losses are making the cushions of capital held for times of crisis look increasingly threadbare.
The very phrases were worn so threadbare that they evoked no image except that of a turbaned "character. " Leaking sawdust at every pore as he pursued a tiger through thebois de boulogne.
Don't buy any clothes at all, neglecting to replace items that are torn, stain or threadbare.
Even the new excuses created by technology are starting to look threadbare.
