English Dictionary

threadbare

/ˈθɹɛdbɛə(ɹ)/

adj

(of cloth) shabby, frayed and worn to an extent that warp threads show / damaged or shabby / (of a person) wearing clothes of threadbare material / banal or clichéd; trite or hackneyed

The old sofa was threadbare and in desperate need of replacement.

意味（1）

(of cloth) shabby, frayed and worn to an extent that warp threads show

Such threadbare coats and trousers, such fusty gowns and shawls, such squashed hats and bonnets, such boots and shoes, such umbrellas and walking-sticks, never were seen in Rag Fair.

意味（2）

damaged or shabby

Holy Virgin stood in the main Convent of Glatz, in rather a threadbare condition, when the Prussians first approached; the Jesuits, and ardently Orthodox of both sexes, flagitating Heaven and her with their prayers, that she would vouchsafe to keep the Prussians out.

意味（3）

(of a person) wearing clothes of threadbare material

意味（4）

banal or clichéd; trite or hackneyed

But with so many tired, lazy callbacks to its own threadbare catalog (including “Love Is Not The Answer,” a watery echo of the epic “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” from 2003’s Permission To Land), Hot Cakes marks the point where The Darkness has stopped cannibalizing the golden age of stadium rock and simply started cannibalizing itself.