rags and tatters

rags and tatters

English

Noun

rags and tatters pl (plural only)

1. very old, torn clothes
   • 2002, C. L. Brightwell, Memorials of the Early Lives and Doings of Great Lawyers, p.198

     ...she was sworn just as she was, all rags and tatters.

2. (by extension) something ruined; fragments
   • December 17 2001, Russell Thomas, The Guardian Sports section.

     Fulham's defence was a thing of rags and tatters long before the end.

Translations

very old, torn clothes

Czech: hadry (cs) m pl French: haillons (fr) pl

German: Lumpen (de) f pl Spanish: andrajos (es) m pl, estrazas f pl, harapos (es) m pl, jirones (es), guiñapos (es) m pl