tired out

Idioms  

1. Also, tired to death. Exhausted, as in She looked tired out after that trip, or He came home tired to death. The first term dates from the second half of the 1500s; the second, a hyperbole, was first recorded in 1740. Also see sick and tired; to death.

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Example Sentences

A 6 July letter from high-ranking congressman Jamie Raskin was made public on Thursday, where the Maryland representative compared the president to a baseball pitcher whose arm has "tired out".

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2024

On a visit to Maine, he learned that Biddle had told his mother that Fuller “was tired out and needed someone to look after him.”

From Slate • Aug. 2, 2022

“It’s like another way of socializing, but you can use muscles that haven’t been tired out in the same way,” he said.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2022

“I mean, I was a little oblivious to what was going on. I was dead tired out there, just grinding and trying to do my best to stop them,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 10, 2022

Now she’s going to look all tired out, and it will be my fault.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan