rags and tatters en · NOUN
Meanings
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(plural, plural-only) very old, torn clothes
...she was sworn just as she was, all rags and tatters.
2002, C. L. Brightwell, Memorials of the Early Lives and Doings of Great Lawyers, page 198:
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(broadly, plural, plural-only) 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 (10)
es jirones (very old, torn clothes) · es andrajos (very old, torn clothes) · de Lumpen (very old, torn clothes) · fr haillons (very old, torn clothes) · uk лахмі́ття (very old, torn clothes) · az cır-cındır (very old, torn clothes) · es harapos (very old, torn clothes) · es estrazas (very old, torn clothes) · cs hadry (very old, torn clothes) · es guiñapos (very old, torn clothes)