In tatters

Definition

tatters /'tætǝz/ n [ pl ] အစုတ္အၿပဲ။ အစုတ္အျပတ္။ His clothes hung in tatters. ❏ in tatters [ IDM ] စုတ္ျပတ္သတ္သြားေအာင္။ အစုတ္စုတ္ အျပတ္ျပတ္။ The court case left his reputation/life/career in tatters. ❍ Government policy is in tatters. v

Examples

1. ‘There were blackened corpses and skeletons scattered among the rocks and wood; just bone
2. metal
3. and tatters of rotting flesh rejected or missed by scavengers.’
4. ‘His clothes were completely ruined
5. no more than tatters.’
6. ‘He designs his costume
7. most often resorting to rags and tatters.’
8. ‘Scraps and tatters of the past whirled in my head.’
9. ‘Song fragments and electronic tatters abound on this album
10. and at the moments you put out your hand to their allure
11. Maricich snaps them back with a smirk.’
12. ‘A crowd that clutched parcels of packaged joy had gathered around a joyless
13. shoeless vagrant who was dressed in newspaper-stuffed tatters.’
14. ‘There were photographs stuck to the stone wall
15. packages with letters
16. coins
17. tatters of cloth.’
18. ‘I twirled the leaf around in my fingers: dry
19. yellow and brown and brittle
20. tatters of desiccated material around a skeleton of veins.’
21. ‘A few bits of bone and tatters of cloth were all that remained of Orhandia.’
22. ‘And finally
23. we found the chamber in which she was kept
24. spread-eagled against one wall
25. dressed in rags and tatters of her once-magnificent gown.’
26. ‘Just as some people
27. apparently servants in rags and tatters
28. served dinner.’
29. ‘How many pairs of boots did Carlyon tear to tatters in his researches?’
30. ‘Yesterday I bought new shoes
31. and told the clerk I needed something that would stand up to a great dealing walking the next day without shredding my heel into red tatters.’
32. ‘Other times I want to jump up and down on them until they are in shreds and tatters
33. cursing the preciosity of it all.’
34. ‘It had certainly seen better days
35. for now sky could be seen through a large gap in one area of the ceiling and the several colourful tapestries adorning the walls were now no more than tatters.’
36. ‘About half a mile from the Desolate Borough's walls
37. the city dumped the by-products of dyes
38. tatters of textiles
39. and every other waste that had no use for.’
40. ‘Jonathan Crane
41. wearing the rags and tatters of his Scarecrow costume
42. without his mask
43. is relaxing on a couch
44. feet up on an endtable.’
45. ‘The few shreds and tatters of pre-1960s culture
46. I suppose.’
47. ‘How can one say that contemporary theories of Egyptian archeologically based history are nothing more than notions derived from a few rags & tatters?’
48. ‘They never would have suspected a spy of any sorts the only person there was an old man from the looks of it sitting in a corner covered from head to foot in old rags and tatters.’