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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Threadbare \Thread"bare`\, a.
   1. Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off;
      threadbare clothes. ``A threadbare cope.'' --Chaucer.

   2. Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and
      threadbare quotations. --Swift.

资料来源 : WordNet®

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)}, {timeworn},
             {tired}, {trite}, {well-worn}]
     2: having the nap worn away so that the threads show through;
        "threadbare rugs"