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Meaning of threadbare
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
threadbare
adj 1: 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'" [syn:
{banal}, {commonplace}, {hackneyed}, {old-hat},
{shopworn}, {stock(a)}, {threadbare}, {timeworn},
{tired}, {trite}, {well-worn}]
2: having the nap worn away so that the threads show through;
"threadbare rugs"
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