in shreds and tatters
1tatters — tat|ters [ tætərz ] noun plural old torn pieces of clothing: SHREDS in tatters 1. ) something such as a plan or an agreement that is in tatters has been spoiled and will probably fail 2. ) in very bad condition …
2tatters — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. pl. rags, odds and ends, fragments. See part. II (Roget s IV) pl.n. Syn. scraps, patches, shreds; see rags , remnants …
3Western Lands, The — by William S. Burroughs (1987) The Western Lands is the final volume of William S. Burroughs’s cut up trilogy that also includes cities of tHe red niGHt (1981) and The place of dead roads (1984). In his acknowledgments, he credits Norman… …
4mendicancy — n beggary, mendicity, pauperism, pau perage; alms begging, Inf. panhandling, scrounging, Inf. bumming; poverty, indigence, penury, destitution, pennilessness, impecuniosity, neediness; Inf. hardupness, Queer Street, skid row; insolvency,… …
5tatter — Synonyms and related words: ablate, abrade, barrel, beeline, bit, bits, bullet, butt, chip, chunk, clip, clipping, collop, crumb, cut, cutting, destroyed, dollop, end, erode, fly, fragment, fray, frazzle, fret, gob, gobbet, haste, hasten,… …
6rags — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. old clothes, patched clothing, tatters, torn garments, shreds and patches, scraps, castoff clothes, castoffs, hand me downs, shreds, frazzles, patches, remnants; see also clothes …
7tatter — n 1. rag, shred, scrap, piece, bit. 2. tatters rags, castoffs, old clothes; scraps, shreds, patches, shreds and patches …
8Angus Lewis Macdonald — Infobox President name = Angus L. Macdonald caption = order2 = 21st Premier of Nova Scotia term start2 = September 8, 1945 term end2 = April 13, 1954 predecessor2 = Alexander S. MacMillan successor2 = Harold Connolly order1 = 19th Premier of Nova …
9frazzled — Synonyms and related words: ausgespielt, debilitated, done, done up, dowdy, down at heel, down at the heels, drooping, emptied, enervated, enfeebled, exhausted, fagged, faint, fainting, far gone, fatigued, feeling faint, flagging, footsore,… …
10patchy — Synonyms and related words: adulterated, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, arrested, bespangled, blemished, blended, blotched, blotchy, broken, broken off, callow, capricious, careening, catchy, chopped off, choppy, combined,… …
