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The Universal Dictionary- It is intended for a full-text search and it significantly expands the possibilities of working with lexical items from the Russian glossary of LingvoUniversal. Contains usage examples, synonyms, and antonyms.
- It is intended for a full-text search and it significantly expands the possibilities of working with lexical items from the Russian glossary of LingvoUniversal. Contains usage examples, synonyms, and antonyms.
well-worn
прил.
поношенный, потёртый
банальный, истасканный, избитый (о шутке, фразе и т. п.)
носимый заслуженно или с достоинством
Examples from texts
As he strode about, flourishing a stick he carried, he kept on striking the well-worn chair-seats of horsehair which sounded hard and dead as stone.Мимоходом он слегка колотил кончиком трости по оборванным волосяным сиденьям. Они издавали резкий звук, точно каменные.Zola, Emile / Abbe Mouret's TransgressionЗоля, Эмиль / Проступок аббата МуреПроступок аббата МуреЗоля, ЭмильAbbe Mouret's TransgressionZola, Emile© BiblioBazaar, LLC
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Collocations
well-worn story
анекдот с бородой