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Exhaust one, as in I've run myself ragged with this project . This idiom alludes to working so hard that one's appearance is reduced to rags. [c. 1920]Advertisement
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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