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ˈthread·bare ADJ

1. threadbare:

threadbare material
threadbare clothes
threadbare carpet
threadbare argument fig

2. threadbare person, building:

threadbare

3. threadbare fig (too often used):

threadbare

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

threadbare argument fig

Examples from the Internet (not verified by PONS Editors)

will be released in Mid-February, a piece of subtile beauty which Cave himself describes as follows :

"Well, if I were to use that threadbare metaphor of albums being like children, then Push The Sky Away is the ghost-baby in the incubator and Warren ’ s loops are its tiny, trembling heart-beat."

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Ein Werk subtiler Schönheit, über das Cave sagt :

„ Wenn ich die abgedroschene Metapher verwenden wollte, dass Alben wie Kinder sind, dann wäre „ Push The Sky Away “ das Geisterbaby im Brutkasten und Warrens Loops wären der Rhythmus seines winzigen, zitternden Herzens “.

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Daniel Kehlmann

It may be a cheap phrase, a threadbare cliché, but in the case of Daniel Kehlmann there is no way round it: he drank in the arts at his mother’s breast.

His father was a well-known German television director; his mother, an actress.

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Daniel Kehlmann

Es mag eine billige Phrase sein, ein abgedroschenes Klischee, aber im Falle Daniel Kehlmanns kommt man nicht drum herum: Das künstlerische hat er mit der Muttermilch aufgesogen.

Sein Vater war ein bekannter deutscher Fernsehregisseur, seine Mutter Schauspielerin.

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