Even though there is a threadbare concession stand, overflowing picnic baskets abound.
Instead, Carson tends to alternate between inflammatory arguments and threadbare truisms.
Immigration and tax policy are just as beggared and threadbare and awful.
On the other hand, the economic model is as threadbare as many of the buildings and much of the island's infrastructure.
Sequestration tore at our threadbare social safety net, and this deal leaves the damage intact.
It's a very good word, too, but sometimes I fear she will wear it threadbare.
When at length she felt a welcome jar and lurch her patience was threadbare.
He weighed the stories he had heard from Shaky, and picked them threadbare.
His sentiments were, no better known in Boston than his threadbare clothes.
She pressed the cat to her threadbare bosom with a breathless exclamation.
