in shreds and tatters

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• tatters — 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 …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• tatters — 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 …   English dictionary for students

• Western 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… …   Encyclopedia of Beat Literature

• mendicancy — 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,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• tatter — 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,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• rags — (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 …   English dictionary for students

• tatter — n 1. rag, shred, scrap, piece, bit. 2. tatters rags, castoffs, old clothes; scraps, shreds, patches, shreds and patches …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• Angus 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 …   Wikipedia

• frazzled — 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,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• patchy — 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,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• seedy — Synonyms and related words: Mickey Mouse, ailing, bad, base, beat up, bedraggled, below par, blowzy, broken down, careless, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, coarse, common, critically ill, debilitated, decayed, decaying, decrepit, deteriorated,… …   Moby Thesaurus