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rags

US // (ræɡz) //

抹布,褴褛,碎布,碎纸片

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : torn, old, or shabby clothing
    • : cotton or linen cloth waste used in the manufacture of rag paper
    • : from rags to riches informal from poverty to great wealtha rags-to-riches tale
    • : glad rags informal best clothes; finery

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Examples

  • In Ireland, the name of Sean Quinn will be forever linked in the public mind as the ultimate cautionary tale of riches to rags.

  • For every story of rags to riches, there is another of riches to rags.

  • Filthy rags and broken bottles lay on the concrete pavement.

  • A man, dressed in rags, stalks across the field, impaling the bodies with a bayonet.

  • His is the classic immigrant rags-to-riches tale of that much-sought fantasy, the American Dream.

  • I've seen more cloes on folks' backs hyar, thet wan't no more'n fit for carpet-rags, than any place ever I struck.

  • It is at best but a worn-out scarecrow shaking its vain rags in the wind.

  • Their own mothers would hardly know them—burnt black with the sun, in rags or else stark naked, with pipes in their mouths.

  • The doctor came, just then, and for several minutes he gave his undivided attention to Rags.

  • Matt was glad of something that would take his mind off Rags for a time, and he followed Chub toward the barn.